Muhammad (name)

Mohammed is the most common in the German form of the most commonly used as a first name Arabic name محمد, DMG Muḥammad [ mɔħam əd ː ]. Also widespread is the Arabic spelling Muhammad [ Muham ː ad]. The best-known bearer of the name is the Islamic prophet Muhammad. With over 150 million carriers of its variations Mohammad is the world's most common first name today.

Importance

The name محمد Muhammad is Arabic in origin and means " blessed ", " praise ". The name comes from the root حمد, DMG Hamida, praise, praise ', derived from the Arabic name as well as Ahmad, Hamid Mahmud or. Often the name is translated as " mediator between God and man."

Phonetics

The Arabic pronunciation changed the / o / of the first syllable because of the following " sharp H" so that, for German ears like / u / sound, although it was / is the phoneme / o. Also changed this / h / the following / a / in such a way that it sounds to German ears like [a]. The uninfluenced by consonant pronunciation of the Arabic phoneme A [ æ ] sounds like [ ɛ ] or [ e], which is why the final vowel for German ears like / e / sound, although he thus represents a phoneme, the same as the second vowel, thus would the most accurate pronunciation in German Mohammad, what exactly correspond to the form which is also used in the related with the German Persian.

In other languages

The transcription of the Persian language is Mohammad [ mohæm.mæd ]. The Turkish form of the name is Mehmet and Muhammet (including Muhammad ). Earlier in many European languages ​​the form Mahomet was common, which has its end- T from Turkish, as is true in Turkish devoicing. This form is now so even in French the ordinary form of the name of the Islamic prophet. The most common Italian form Maometto goes back as well as the Spanish and Portuguese form Mahoma form Maomé on the form shown above. The Latin form is Maometus. In the area of the former Soviet Union is the form Magomet, as today's first name by Muslims, by no means rare. An Africanized and common in Gambia Momodou form, while in West Africa in general have the shape Mamadou occurs.

Bearers of the name

• List of rulers named Muhammad

Surname Mohammed

• Ali Mohammed (al- Qaeda ) (born 1954 ), American al - Qaeda member Egyptian origin
• Mohammed Ali ( boxer ), boxer from Tanzania
• Ali Mahdi Muhammad ( born 1939 ), Somali politicians
• Bassem Hassan Mohammed (* 1987), Qatari jumpers
• Bibi Titi Mohammed (1926-2000), Tanzanian civil rights activist and politician
• Bilal Mohammed ( born 1986 ), Qatari footballer
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Kuwaiti terrorist
• Dost Mohammed (1793-1863), Afghan rulers
• Emad Mohammed ( b. 1982 ), the Iraqi football player
• Feiz Mohammed ( b. 1970 /1), Australian Wahhabi preachers
• Halgurd Mulla Mohammed (* 1988), the Iraqi football player
• Hawar Mulla Mohammed ( b. 1982 ), the Iraqi football player
• Isah Mohammed (* 1987), Nigerian Taekwondoin
• Jamal Mohammed ( born 1984 ), Kenyan football player
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (* 1964/5), Kuwaiti Islamist Terrorist
• Merima Mohammed (* 1992), Ethiopian marathon runner
• Mesud Mohammed, Ethiopian footballer
• Murtala Mohammed (1938-1976), Nigerian President
• Nazr Mohammed ( born 1977 ), American basketball player
• Omar Awwar Mohammed (born 1967 ), Djibouti shear tennis players
• Omar Bakri Mohammed (born 1958 ), a Sunni fundamentalist and agitator
• Osman Saleh Mohammed ( born 1948 ), Eritrean politician
• Qazi Mohammed (1900/1901-1947), Kurdish politicians
• Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed (1952-2013), Egyptian military

In addition, is

• Prince Mohammed (born 1958 ) is a Jamaican reggae singer

Surname Muhammad

• Abdallah Muhammad ( † 1524), Sultan of the Wattasids
• Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1846-1899), Sudanese General
• Ahmad Muhammad (* 1991), Pakistani football player
• Ali Nasir Muhammad ( born 1939 ), Yemeni politicians
• Ali Shaheed Muhammad (born 1970 ), American DJ
• Ameen Muhammad (1954-2003), American jazz musician and composer
• Amir Muhammad (born 1972 ), Malaysian journalist and filmmaker
• Dalilah Muhammad (* 1990), American track and field athlete
• Eddie Mustafa Muhammad ( born 1952 ), American boxer
• Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975), American political activist
• Fatima bint Muhammad ( 606-632 ), youngest daughter of the Prophet Mohammed
• Fazul Abdullah Mohammed ( b. 1972 /4), Comorian Terrorist
• Idris Muhammad ( born 1939 ), American jazz drummer
• John Allen Muhammad (1960-2009), American serial killer
• Kenny Muhammad ( born 1968 ), American Beatboxing Artist
• Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948-2001), African-American Muslim leader
• Lutalo Muhammad (* 1991), British Taekwondo
• Matthew Saad Muhammad (born 1954 ), American boxer
• Moulay Muhammad (1710-1790), Moroccan ruler
• Ruby Muhammad (1907-2011), American political activist
• Shabazz Muhammad (* 1992), American basketball player

Surname Mohammad

• Amir Mohammad (1931-1997), an Afghan singer
• Isah Mohammed (* 1987), Nigerian Taekwondoin
• Nazri Mohammad, an Afghan warlord and politician

Trivia

• Voltaire wrote a tragedy critical of religion entitled Mahomet the Prophet ( original title: Le fanatisme ou Mahomet le A Prophet, premiere Lille ); the piece was in 1802 translated into German by Goethe.