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Mahumetan

Mahumetan is the obsolete form of Mohammedan.

Meaning of Mohammedan

Adjective

Mohammedan (not comparable)

  1. (now largely obsolete and offensive) Muslim, Islamic.
    • At the principal stations there are also separate Hindu and Mohemmedan refreshment rooms, and some mail trains have compartments reserved for Indian tea and sweetmeat vendors.1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 119
  2. Relating to Mohammed.

See all 3 meanings of Mohammedan

Forms of Mahumetan

pluralMahumetans

Origin of Mahumetan

From Mahumet + -an.

Questions about Mahumetan

What is Mahumetan the obsolete form of?
Mahumetan is the obsolete form of Mohammedan.

Words near Mahumetan in the dictionary

  1. mahudo
  2. Mahumatism
  3. mahume
  4. mahumes
  5. Mahumet
  6. Mahumetan
  7. Mahumetanism
  8. Mahumetans
  9. Mahumett
  10. mahurat
  11. mahurats

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Mahumetan (page history and authors); Mohammedan (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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