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Mahound

Definition: Mahound

Mahound

Noun

1. The Arab prophet who founded Islam (570-632).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Mahound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Mahound \Ma`hound\, noun. contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; devil. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Mahound

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Literature

Mahound (2 syl.). Mahomet. (See Macon .)
"Ofttimes by Termagant and Mahound swore."
Spenser: Faerrie Queene, vii. 47. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms: Mahound

Synonyms: Mahomet (n), Mohammed (n), Muhammad (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Mahound

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Books

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Modern Translations: Mahound

Language Translations for "mahound"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

ahoundmay.(various references)

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Anagrams: Mahound

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-h-m-n-o-u"

-2 letters: douma, dunam, honda, hound, human, maund, monad, mound, nomad.

-3 letters: damn, dona, doum, duma, hand, mano, maud, maun, moan, muon, noma, undo.

-4 letters: ado, amu, and, dah, dam, dom, don, duh, dun, duo, had, ham, hao, hod, hon, hum, hun, mad, man, mho, moa, mod, mon, mud, mun, nah, nam, nod, noh, nom, ohm, oud, udo.

-5 letters: ad, ah, am, an, do, ha, hm, ho, ma, mo, mu, na, no, nu, od, oh, om, on, uh, um, un.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-h-m-n-o-u"
 

+1 letter: humanoid.

 

+2 letters: anthodium, humanoids.

 

+3 letters: unhandsome.

 

+4 letters: badmouthing.

 

+5 letters: malnourished, monadelphous, unhandsomely.

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Alternative Orthography: Mahound


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 68 6F 75 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    ....    ---    ..-    -.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01101000 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#104 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0068 006F 0075 006E 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47677481878070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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