Muhammad
(məˈhæməd)
Also 7 Mahumed, 7– Mohammed, 8 Muhammed, 9 Mahom(m)ed.
The name (repr. Arabic Muḥammad) of the founder of the Muslim religion. (See the older European form Mahomet.)
The older forms with final t, which follow the early European tradition, are placed under Mahomet; those which show recourse to the Arabic form are for convenience collected here, as explaining the diversities of form in the following adj.
| 1615 Bestwell (title) Mohammedis imposturæ; that is, a discovery of the forgeries, falshoods, and impieties of Mohammed. 1634 Sir. T. Herbert Trav. 36 They [sc. the Bannian Priests] hate Mahumed, and acknowledge one God and creatour of all things. 1706 Phillips, Mahomet or Muhammed, an Arabian Impostor. 1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arab., etc., Dissert. p. xiii/2 The era of Mohammed. 1814 Southey Roderick xx. 19 The subjected West Should bow in reverence at Mahommed's name. 1891 D. A. Cameron Arabic-Eng. Voc. Introd. (1892) 14 The Moslems reckon from a.d. 622, the date of the Flight..of Mahomed from Mecca to Medina. 1896 T. P. Hughes in Sun (N.Y.) May, The only correct way of spelling the word under consideration is ‘Muhammad’... In writing for the press I very often use the incorrect spelling [Mohammed]. |