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Muhammadan

Muhammadan is the alternative form of Mohammedan.

Meaning of Mohammedan

Noun

Mohammedan (plural Mohammedans)

  1. (now largely obsolete and offensive) Muslim.
    • MOSQUE (Fr. mosquée, from Sp. mezquita, from Ar. masjid, temple, from sajada, to prostrate one's self, to pray). A Mohammedan house of prayer and worship. Examples of these buildings are found wherever the Mohammedan faith has prevailed, from Spain to India and Turkestan.1905, “Mosque”, in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company

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Forms of Muhammadan

pluralMuhammadans

Origin of Muhammadan

From Muhammad + -an.

Questions about Muhammadan

What is Muhammadan the alternative form of?
Muhammadan is the alternative form of Mohammedan.

Words near Muhammadan in the dictionary

  1. Muhamedans
  2. Muhamedism
  3. Muhamet
  4. Muhamid
  5. Muhammad
  6. Muhammadan
  7. Muhammadanism
  8. Muhammadanize
  9. Muhammadanized
  10. Muhammadanizes
  11. Muhammadanizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Muhammadan (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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