Ahmed

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːχ.mɛd/, /ˈɑː.mɛd/, /ɑːˈmɛd/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːmɛd, -ɛd

Proper noun

Ahmed

1. A male given name from Arabic, variant of Ahmad.
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     Olympique Lyonnais midfielder Nemanja Matic and Le Havre striker Ahmed Hassan have each been handed two-game bans with a further two matches suspended after they concealed Ligue 1’s anti-homophobia insignia on their shirts, the French top-flight said.

2. A surname from Arabic.

Derived terms

• Ahmedabad

Translations

male given name

• Amharic: አህመድ (ʾähmäd)
• Arabic: أَحْمَد (ar) m (ʔaḥmad)
• Armenian: Ահմադ (Ahmad)
• Azerbaijani: Əhməd
• Bashkir: Әхмәт (Əxmət)
• Bulgarian: Ахмад m (Ahmad), Ахмед m (Ahmed)
• Burmese: အာမက် (amak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 艾哈邁德 / 艾哈迈德 (zh) (Àihāmàidé)

• Edo: Amadu
• Finnish: Ahmed
• French: Ahmed (fr) m
• German: Ahmet m; Ahmed m; Ahmad (de) m
• Greek: Αχμάντ (el) m (Achmánt), Αχμέντ (el) m (Achmént)
• Gujarati: અહમદ (ahamad)
• Hausa: Ahmadu
• Hebrew: אחמד m (aḥmad)
• Hindi: अहमद m (ahmad)
• Indonesian: Ahmad
• Japanese: アフマド (Afumado)
• Kazakh: Ахмад (Axmad)
• Korean: 아흐마드 (Aheumadeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Ehmed (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Ахмад (Ahmad)
• Lao: ອາ​ຫມັດ (ʼā mat)
• Lithuanian: Ahmadas
• Malayalam: അഹ്മദ് (ahmadŭ), അഹമ്മദ് (ahammadŭ)
• Marathi: अहमद (ahmad)
• Nepali: अहमद (ahamad)
• Pashto: احمد (ps)
• Persian: احمد (fa) (ahmad)
• Punjabi: ਅਹਿਮਦ (pa) (ahimad)
• Russian: Ахма́д (ru) m (Axmád), Ахме́д (ru) m (Axméd)
• Sindhi: احمد (sd) (āḥmd)
• Sinhalese: අහමඩ් (ahamaḍ)
• Somali: Axmed
• Sylheti: ꠀꠢꠝꠖ (ahomodo)
• Tajik: Аҳмад (Ahmad)
• Tamil: அகமது (akamatu), அஹமட் (ahamaṭ), அகமத் (akamat)
• Thai: อาเหม็ด (aa-mèt), อาหมัด (aa-màt)
• Turkish: Ahmet (tr)
• Urdu: احمد
• Uyghur: ئەخمەت (exmet)
• Uzbek: Axmad
• Wolof: Amadou

Anagrams

• Hamed

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish احمد (Ahmed), from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad).

Proper noun

Ahmed m

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Ahmed

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	Ahmed	Ahmedi
accusative		Ahmedin
dative/ablative	Ahmedi	Ahmedit

References

• Marina Dražić, Ivana Antić, editors (2019), Каталог најчешћих албанских имена и презимена [Catalogue of the most common Albanian names and surnames]‎^[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), page 7

German

Alternative forms

• Achmed, Achmet, Ahmad, Ahmet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaxmɛt/

Proper noun

Ahmed m (proper noun, strong, genitive Ahmeds)

1. a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Ahmed

Turkish

Proper noun

Ahmed

1. obsolete spelling of Ahmet