Meaning of the name Muhammad

To praise or to thank

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moo-HAH-med

Muhammad is an Arabic name, derived from the word 'hamida', which means 'praise or thank'.

Muhammed is a muslim name meaning 'worthy of praise'. Taken from the word 'hamid' which means 'to praise'.

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muh-HAA-mehd

Means "praised, commendable" In Arabic, derived from the root حمد (ḥamida) meaning "to praise". This was the name of the prophet who founded the Islamic religion In the 7th century. According to Islamic belief, at age 40 Muhammad was visited by the angel Gabriel, who provided him with the first verses of the Quran. Approximately 20 years later he conquered Mecca, the city of his birth, and his followers controlled most of the Arabian Peninsula at the time of his death In 632.Since the prophet's time his name has been very popular In the Muslim world. It was borne by several Abbasid caliphs and six sultans of the Ottoman Empire (though their names are usually given In the Turkish spelling Mehmet). Other famous bearers include Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (9th century), a Persian mathematician and scientist who devised algebra, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd (1126-1198), An Andalusian scholar also called Averroes, and Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273), a Persian poet. In the modern era there is Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), the founder of Pakistan, and the American boxer Muhammad Ali (1942-2016).

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/mu.ˈħam.mad/(Arabic) /mʊ.ˈhæm.əd/(English) /mʊ.ˈɦəm.məd̪/(Urdu) /ˈmu.ɦam.mɔd̪/(Bengali)  

Praised

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Praised one

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Praiseworthy

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