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

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Mahometan

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 Karl Ritter von Scherzer

This latter blazon Boondi holds in commemoration of the defeat of an Imperial Prince who rebelled against the Delhi Throne in the days of Jehangir, when Boondi, for value received, took service under the Mahometan.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

He says that his colleagues baptized in one year after 1892, in the district of Davao alone, more than three thousand Mahometan Moros.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

It was on Nicephorus then that Romanus II., the son and heir of Constantine VII., fixed his choice, when he resolved to commence an attack on the Mahometan powers.

From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman

A Mahometan is not allowed to marry his sister-in-law, his niece, his foster-sister, or his daughter-in-law brought up under the care of his wife.

From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)