Mahomet

From Middle English Macomet, from Latin Machometus, Mahometus, from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad.

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Mahomet

1. (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.

• This was the predominant spelling until the late 1700s, when it was overtaken by Mohammed and then ultimately Muhammad, which see for more.

• Mohamet

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Mahomet

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• IPA^(key): /ma.ɔ.mɛ/

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Mahomet m

1. (Islam) Muhammad (Islamic prophet)

   Synonym: le Prophète

• 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.

Mahomet

1. (Islam) Muhammad (Islamic prophet)

Mahomet

1. Muhammad (Islamic prophet)

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Mahomet

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Learned borrowing from Latin Mahometus, from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad).

• IPA^(key): /maˈxɔ.mɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔmɛt
• Syllabification: Ma‧ho‧met

Mahomet m pers

1. (Islam) Muhammad (Islamic prophet)

• Mahomet in Polish dictionaries at PWN