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Mahdis

Mahdis is the plural of Mahdi.

Meaning of Mahdi

Proper noun

Mahdi (countable and uncountable, plural Mahdis)

  1. (Sunni) A leader who, according to Sunni eschatology, will appear and restore peace and justice before the end of the world.
    • Ahmadis consider Mirza Ghulam Ahmed to be the Mahdi.
  2. Muhammad b. Hasan al-Mahdi, the last of the Twelve Imams, born in 868 AD but believed alive and present in this world in a state of occultation; Similarly to Sunni belief, he will reappear before the end of time.
  3. A male given name from Arabic.
  4. A surname from Arabic.

Questions about Mahdis

What is Mahdis the plural of?
Mahdis is the plural of Mahdi.

Words near Mahdis in the dictionary

  1. Mahdihood
  2. Mahdiism
  3. Mahdiist
  4. Mahdiists
  5. Mahdiqoli
  6. Mahdis
  7. Mahdiship
  8. Mahdism
  9. Mahdist
  10. Mahdists
  11. Mahe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mahdis (page history and authors); Mahdi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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