Mahomet
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English Macomet, from Latin Machometus, Mahometus, from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editMahomet
- (obsolete or archaic) Alternative spelling of Muhammad (the prophet who introduced Islam).
- 1829, Charles Mac Farlane, Constantinople in 1828. A Residence of Sixteen Months in the Turkish Capital and Provinces: […], London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 120:
- The sultan and all his grandees, confident in the means of protection, entered the serraglio, took down the sangiac-sheriff, or sacred standard of Mahomet, and, headed by a number of Oulemas reciting apposite passages from the Koran, proceeded forthwith to the imperial mosque of Achmet, in the square of the Hippodrome, at a very few paces from the palace.
Usage notes
edit- This was the predominant spelling until the late 1700s, when it was overtaken by Mohammed and then ultimately Muhammad, which see for more.
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editMahomet m
Usage notes
edit- Francophone Muslims usually prefer Mohamed or other forms closer to the Arabic, but Mahomet remains more current in secular contexts.
- The form Mahomet is reserved for the Prophet and not used for modern Muslims with equivalent names.
Interlingua
editProper noun
editMahomet
Middle French
editProper noun
editMahomet
- Muhammad (Islamic prophet)
Polish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin Mahometus, from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editMahomet m pers
Declension
editDeclension of Mahomet
Further reading
edit- Mahomet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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