Muhammad

English

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Alternative forms

• Mohammed was the predominant form from the 1700s until the 1940s, when it was overtaken by Muhammad, which has been the predominant form ever since. Other very common forms are Mohamed, Muhamad, Mohammad, and Muhammed, which all came into widespread use after 1820.
• (other common forms:) Mahomed, Mohamad, Muhamed, Muhammat, Mahommed
• (uncommon and obsolete forms:) Mahomad, Muhammet, Mohamet, Mahomat, Mahommet, Muhamet, Mohammet, Muhamat, Mahommad, Mahomet, Mohamat

Etymology

From Arabic محمد (muħámmad, praised, commendable, laudable), the past participle of حمد (ħámida, to praise, commend, laud, extol).

Proper noun

Muhammad

1. The prophet who introduced Islam, the man to whom the Quran was revealed.
2. A male given name very popular among Muslims.

Coordinate terms

• (religious founder): Jesus, Buddha, Zoroaster, Rishabha, Baha'ullah, Moses, Raël, Confucius

Derived terms

• Mohammedan (Mohammedanism), Mohammedism (now offensive)
• Mohammedist (rare, offensive)

Translations

the prophet who introduced Islam

• Afrikaans: Mohammed (af)
• Albanian: Muhammedi (sq)
• Alemannic German: Mohammed
• Arabic: محمد (ar) (muħámmad) m, محمد بن عبد الله (ar) (muħámmad ibni ʕabdullāh) m

  Egyptian Arabic: محمد (maħamad, muħamad) m

• Aragonese: Mahoma (an)
• Aramaic: ܡܘܚܡܕ
• Asturian: Mahoma (ast)
• Azeri: Məhəmməd Peyğəmbər (az)
• Bashkir: Мөхәммәт (Möxämmät)
• Basque: Muhammad (eu)
• Belarusian: Магамет (be) (Mahamét) m, Мухамед (be) (Muxámed) m
• Bengali: মুহাম্মাদ (bn) (muhammad)
• Bikol: Muhammad
• Bislama: Muhammed (bi)
• Breton: Mohammed (br)
• Bulgarian: Мохамед (bg) (Mohamed) m
• Burmese: မိုဟာမက် (my)
• Catalan: Mahoma (ca)
• Cebuano: Muhammad
• Chechen: Мухьаммад
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穆罕默德 (cmn) (Mùhǎnmòdé)

• Cornish: Mahomm (kw)
• Czech: Mohamed (cs) m
• Danish: Muhammed (da)
• Dhivehi: މުޙައްމަދުގެފާނު (dv)
• Dutch: Mohammed (nl)
• Esperanto: Mohamedo (eo)
• Estonian: Muḩammad (et)
• Finnish: Muhammed (fi), Muhammad (fi)
• French: Mahomet (fr) m
• Galician: Mahoma (gl)
• Georgian: მაჰმადი (ka) (mahmadi)
• German: Mohammed (de) m
• Greek: Μωάμεθ (el) (Moámeth) m
• Gujarati: મુહંમદ (gu) (muhammad)
• Hawaiian: Mohameka
• Hebrew: מוחמד (he) m
• Hindi: मुहम्मद (hi) (muhammad) m
• Hungarian: Mohamed (hu), Mohamed próféta (hu)
• Icelandic: Múhameð (is) m
• Ido: Muhamad
• Indonesian: Muhammad (id)
• Interlingua: Mahomet
• Italian: Maometto (it) m
• Japanese: マホメット (ja) (Mahometto), モハメッド (ja) (Mohameddo), ムハンマド・イブン＝アブドゥッラーフ (ja) (muhanmado ibun-abudurrāfu)
• Javanese: Muhammad (jv)
• Kannada: ಮೊಹಮ್ಮದ್ (kn) (mohammad)
• Karakalpak: Muxammed
• Kazakh: Мұхаммед пайғамбар (kk) (Muxammed payğambar), Мұхаммед (kk) (Muxammed)
• Korean: 무함마드 (ko) (Mohammedeu)
• Kurdish: Mihemed Pêxember (ku)
• Kyrgyz: Мухаммед Пайгамбар (ky) (Muhammed Paygambar), Мухаммед (ky) (Muhammed)
• Latin: Mahometus (la) m, Machometus (la) m
• Latvian: Muhameds (lv) m

• Lithuanian: Mahometas (lt) m
• Low German: Mohammed
• Macedonian: Мухамед (mk) (Мúhamed) m
• Malay: Muhammad (ms)
• Malayalam: മുഹമ്മദ് (ml)
• Maltese: Muħammed (mt)
• Marathi: मुहम्मद (mr) (muhammada) m
• Mongolian: Мухамэд (mn) (Muhamed)
• Norwegian: Muhammed (no)
• Occitan: Maomet (oc)
• Old French: Mahumet
• Pangasinan: Muhammad
• Pashto: محمد (ps) (Mohammad)
• Persian: محمد (fa) (Mohammad)
• Polish: Mahomet (pl) m
• Portuguese: Maomé (pt) m
• Quechua: Muhamad (qu)
• Romanian: Mahomed (ro)
• Russian: Мухаммед (ru) (Muxámmed) m, Мохаммед (ru) (Moxámmed) m, Мухаммад (ru) (Muxámmad) m, Магомет (ru) (Magomét) m (traditional)
• Samogitian: Mahuomets
• Sanskrit: मुहम्मद (sa) (muhammada)
• Scots: Mohammad
• Scottish Gaelic: Muhammad (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мухамед (sh) m

  Roman: Muhamed (sh) m

• Sicilian: Maumettu (scn)
• Silesian: Mahůmet
• Sindhi: محمد (sd)
• Sinhalese: මුහම්මද් නබි (si) (muhammad nabi), මුහම්මද් (si) (muhammad)
• Slovak: Mohamed (sk) m
• Slovene: Móhamed (sl) m
• Somali: Maxamed (so)
• Spanish: Mahoma (es) m
• Sundanese: Muhammad (su)
• Swahili: Muhammad (sw)
• Swedish: Muhammed (sv)
• Tagalog: Muhammad (tl)
• Tajik: Муҳаммад (tg) (Muhammad)
• Tamil: முகம்மது நபி (ta) (mukammatu napi), முகம்மது (ta) (mukammatu)
• Tatar: Мөхәммәт (tt) (Möxämmät), Мөхәммәт пәйгамбәр (tt) (Möxämmät päygambär)
• Telugu: మహమ్మద్ (te) (mahammad)
• Thai: มุฮัมมัด (th) (móohammát)
• Turkish: Muhammed (tr), Muhammet (tr), Muhammed peygamber (tr)
• Turkmen: Muhammet pygamber (tk), Muhammet (tk)
• Ukrainian: Мухаммед (uk) (Muxámmed) m, Магомет (uk) (Mahomét) m
• Urdu: محمد (ur) (muhammad) m
• Uyghur: مۇھەممەد (ug) (muhemmed), مەھەممەت (ug) (mehemmet)
• Uzbek: Muhammad (uz)
• Vietnamese: Muhammad (vi)
• Welsh: Muhammad (cy)
• West Frisian: Mohammed (fy)
• Wolof: Muhammad (wo)
• Yakut: Муhаммед
• Yiddish: מוחמד (yi) m, מוכאַמאַד (yi) m
• Yoruba: Muhammed (yo)
• Zazaki: Hz. Mıhemmed

male given name

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• Muhammed

Proper noun

Muhammad

1. Muhammad (prophet of Islam)

Declension

Declension of Muhammad (type risti) singular plural nominative Muhammad Muhammadit genitive Muhammadin Muhammadien partitive Muhammadia Muhammadeja accusative Muhammad Muhammadin Muhammadit inessive Muhammadissa Muhammadeissa elative Muhammadista Muhammadeista illative Muhammadiin Muhammadeihin adessive Muhammadilla Muhammadeilla ablative Muhammadilta Muhammadeilta allative Muhammadille Muhammadeille essive Muhammadina Muhammadeina translative Muhammadiksi Muhammadeiksi instructive – Muhammadein abessive Muhammaditta Muhammadeitta comitative – Muhammadeineen

Usage notes

The purists prefer the spelling "Muhammad", but "Muhammed" is the traditional and more popular transliteration into Finnish.