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)

It will prove the true Messiah of the Jew, of the Christian, of the Mahometan, and of the Pagan.

From An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... by Carlile, Richard

IN 1233, when the Inquisition in France had received the established form which was bestowed on it by St. Louis, Spain was divided into four Christian kingdoms, besides the Mahometan states.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio

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

Mahometan and Chinese know what we know of leap-year, of the Gregorian calendar, and of the precession of the equinoxes.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various