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Definition: Mohammed |
MohammedNoun1. The Arab prophet who founded Islam (570-632). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Mohammed" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "worthy of praise", "praise". |
Date "Mohammed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: MohammedSynonyms: Mahomet (n), Mahound (n), Muhammad (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pseudo-Revelation | Gautama, Buddha; Zoroaster, Confucius, Bab-ed-Din, Mohammed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mohammed |
| English words defined with "Mohammed": Al Madinah, Alborak ♦ Father of the Faithful, Fatima, Fatimah, Fatimide ♦ Islam, Islamism, Ismaelite ♦ Khutbah, Koran ♦ Mahometanize, Mawmet, Mawmetry, Mecca, Medina, Mohammadanism, Mohammed Ali, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Mohammedanism, Mohammedism, Muslimism ♦ Quran ♦ Seid, Shafiite, Sherif, Shi'ite, Shi'ite Muslim, Sunni, Sunnite ♦ The Faithful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Mohammed": Anacreon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Mohammed": Aladinist ♦ Mahound, Mawmetry. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mohammed" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Mohammed, Muhammad), German (mahomet, Mohammed), Swedish (Mahomet). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Like light, like Mohammed Boxer (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith) | |
Clever | Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry. (references; author: Mohammed) Verily the best of women are those who are content with little. (references; author: Mohammed) If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it. (references; author: Mohammed) Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature. (references; author: Mohammed) The most common name in the world is Mohammed. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mohammed Bayoumi (1991) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Four African leaders arrive at Casablanca airport for African Summit; from right, Modibo Keita of Mali, Sekou Toure of Guinea, King Mohammed of Morocco, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mohammed VI, Sultan of Turkey, full-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mohammed Yusef and the Ameer's Guard at Chaman. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Mohammed | Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry. |
| Verily the best of women are those who are content with little. | |
| If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it. | |
| Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Gen. Sheikh Mohammed feels that the e-government initiative is imperative for Dubai to continue to thrive economically. (references) | |
The announcement of the Dubai Internet City (DIC) in the fall of 1999 by General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum had given a boost to this industry. (references) | ||
Children | Morocco | The King's charity, the Mohammed V Solidarity Fund, makes several donations each year to institutions supporting persons with disabilities. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Kenya | In April 2000, police arrested and beat Mohammed Sheikh, a journalist for The People. (references) |
Morocco | The ban was lifted when the King invited him to appear in a public service advertisement for the Mohammed V Foundation. (references) | |
Economic History | Pakistan | Ports - Pakistan has two significant seaports - The Karachi Port (KPT) and Port Mohammed bin Qasim. (references) |
Syria | Mohammed ABDIN: Port Said Street, Awkaf building, No. 6, tel: 963-11-221-4798, 333-5285. Citizen of the SAR. (references) | |
Morocco | France allowed Mohammed V to return in 1955, and the negotiations that led to Moroccan independence began the following year. (references) | |
Human Rights | Somalia | On June 13, an armed group abducted a TNA member, Mohammed Abdi Gas, in Mogadishu. (references) |
South Africa | In September Rieduwaan Hendricks, Imam Moegsien Barendse, and Faried Mohammed were acquitted of charges related to the 1998 bombing of a synagogue in Wynberg. (references) | |
Jordan | There were no developments in the investigation of the May 1999 death of Mahmoud Rashid Qasem Mohammed Ishtayeh, who died in a hospital while in police custody. (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | Armed with this vague wording, mullahs have brought charges against Ahmadis for using standard Muslim salutations and for naming their children Mohammed. (references) |
Political Economy | Pakistan | The creation of a separate Muslim nation was accomplished largely through the efforts of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first Governor General. (references) |
MOROCCO | Two years into his reign, King Mohammed VI continues to demonstrate energy and determination to reform Morocco's economy and to deepen its democratic structures. (references) | |
Political Rights | Saudi Arabia | The Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights (CDLR), an opposition group, was established in 1993. The Government acted almost immediately to repress it. In 1994 one of its founding members, Mohammed Al-Masari, fled to the United Kingdom, where he sought political asylum and established an overseas branch of the CDLR. In 1996 internal divisions within the CDLR led to the creation of the rival Islamic Reform Movement (IRM), headed by Sa'ad Al-Faqih. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Moses thought he could speak to God, Mohammed thought God spoke to him, Jesus thought he was the son of God. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Mohammed" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mohammed" is used about 625 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 625 | 10,366 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Mohammed" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mohammed | First name Male | 7,000 | 839 |
| Mohammed | Last name | 2,000 | 6,531 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Mohammed" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "worthy of praise", "praise". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Mohammed." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Mahmud | Male | Arabic | Muhammad |
| Mahomet | Male | Arabic | Muhammad |
| Mihammad | Male | Arabic | Muhammad |
| Mohamed | Male | Arabic | Muhammad |
| Mohammad | Male | Arabic | Muhammad |
| Mohammed | Male | Arabic | Muhammad |
| Muhammad | Male | Arabic | N/A |
| Muhammed | Male | Arabic | Muhammad |
| Tamid | Male | Arabic | Muhammad |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Mohammed": Mohammed Ali ♦ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi ♦ Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Mohammed": Mohammed-holgate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Mohammed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Мохамед. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Mohammed (Muhammad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Mahometo (Muhammad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | Muhamed (Muhammad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Mahomet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mohammed (mahomet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όωάμεθ (Muhammad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Mohamed (mahomet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Maometto (Muhammad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ohammedmay Pelo De Cabra Angora. (various references) Мухаммед, Магомет (Mahomet). (various references) Mahoma (mahomet, Muhammad). (various references) ผู้ก่อตั้งศาสนาอิสลาม (Mohammedan, Muhammad). (various references) Muhammet (Muhammad), Muhammed (mahomet), Hazreti Muhammed (mahomet, the prophet). (various references) Мухаммед (Muhammad), Магомет (Muhammad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Mohammed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mahommed, Mahumed, mohammad, Mohammeds, Mohammud, Mohamoud, mohmammed, Mohmand, Mouhamed, Muhamed, mukhammed, Mulhammer, Myhamet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-m-m-m-o" | |
-2 letters: hammed. | |
-3 letters: homed, mahoe, modem, momma. | |
-4 letters: ahem, ammo, dame, demo, dome, hade, haed, haem, hame, head, hoed, home, made, mead, memo, mode, mome, odea, ohed. | |
-5 letters: ado, dah, dam, doe, dom, edh, had, hae, ham, hao, hem, hmm, hod, hoe, mad, mae, med, mem, mho, moa, mod, mom, ode, ohm. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 68 61 6D 6D 65 64 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .... .- -- -- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101000 01100001 01101101 01101101 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o h a m m e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0068 0061 006D 006D 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781746779797170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulgarskt, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, hollendskt, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, holandês, голландский, holandés, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський |
Esperanto | vortaro, difino, traduko | есперанто, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, eszperanto, eszperantó, эсперанто, esperanto, าษาที่ประ"ิษฐ์ขึ้นเพื่อใช้เป็น าษากลางในการสื่อสารระหว่างประเทศ ซึ่งรากศัพท์ส่วนใหญ่, esperanto dili |
Faeroese | orðabók, orðbók | føroyskur |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | френски език, френски, franskur, franskt, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, французский, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, Duitse, týskt, týskari, týskur, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, alemán, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, grikst, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hongaarse, ungarskt, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, italienskt, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugisiskt, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, russur, russiskt, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, русский, ruso, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, Spaans, spanskt, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Thais, Thai, thailendskt, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | турски език, турски, turkist, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | украинец, украински език, Oekraïens, ukraino, ukraina, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, anglan, enskt, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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