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

Morocco is full of these colleges, or rather lodging-houses of the students frequenting the mosques; for all Mahometan education is given in the mosque itself, only the preparatory work being done in the colleges.

From In Morocco by Wharton, Edith

He is descended from the renowned Sivajee, whose skill and courage, in the seventeenth century, delivered the Mahrattas from the Mahometan yoke of the successors of Tamerlane, and founded the mighty Mahratta empire.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

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 Sawyer, Frederic H.

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 Kipling, Rudyard

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