احمد
Arabic
Verb
اِحْمَدْ • (iḥmad) (form I) /iħ.mad/
- second-person masculine singular imperative of حَمِدَ (ḥamida)
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ʔah.ˈmad/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäɦ.mǽd̪]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæɦ.mǽd̪̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäɦ.mǽd̪]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | ahmad |
| Dari reading? | ahmad |
| Iranian reading? | ahmad |
| Tajik reading? | ahmad |
Proper noun
| Dari | احمد |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | Аҳмад |
احمد • (ahmad)
- (Islam) Another name of the Prophet Muhammad.
- a male given name, Ahmad, from Arabic
Adjective
احمد • (ahmad)
- (obsolete) most praiseworthy
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 79:
- یوسف جمال احمد عیسی نفس که هست
حور بهشت قدرت پروردگار هم- yūsuf jamāl-i ahmad-i īsā nafas ki hast
hūr-i bihišt-i qudrat-i parwardagār ham - The most praiseworthy one of Joseph's beauty and Jesus's [resurrecting] breath, who is
Also the paradisaical houri of the might of the Lord.
- yūsuf jamāl-i ahmad-i īsā nafas ki hast
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “احمد”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian اَحْمَد (ahmad), from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /əɦ.məd̪/ [ɛɦ.məd]
- Rhymes: -əd̪
Proper noun
اَحْمَد • (aḥmad) m (Hindi spelling अहमद)