Mahometan

American  

[muh-hom-i-tn] / məˈhɒm ɪ tn /

noun

Archaic.

1. Muslim.

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Mahometan British  

/ məˈhɒmɪtən /

noun

1. a name formerly in Western usage but never used among Muslims for the Muslim religion

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Other Word Forms

• Mahometanism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Mahometan

First recorded in 1520–30; Mahomet + -an

Example Sentences

Towards the south the table-land trends away from the sea, being separated from it by a wide low-lying plain, inhabited by Mahometan tribes.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The Christian and the Mahometan population balance each other in the trans-Caucasian provinces; they both number about 400,000 males.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de

The seller, a Mahometan, himself wore on his finger a diamond-ring which our companion estimated at �1000.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

I am a fatalist, in fact, like a Mahometan, and I believe that all that we do for the progress of humanity is of no use.

From The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski by Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich

Four followers of the prophet are buried with him, two of them Mahometan priests, who are regarded with much veneration by the Malays.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von