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Muhammadan, a. and n.|məˈhæmədən|
Also 7 Mahumedan, 8– Mohammedan, 9 Mahomedan, Mahommedan, Mohummadan, Mohammadan, Muhammadan, Moohummudan.
[f. Muhammad + -an. Now generally substituted for the older Mahometan. Cf. G. Mohamedaner.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to Muhammad, or to the religion or doctrine of Muhammad.
1681Moores Baffled 23 The Mahumedan Law. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad vii. 313 note, They have long submitted to the oppressions of a few Arabs, their Mohammedan masters. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 145 Mohammedan worship. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. i. i. 11 The Mohammedan kings of Delhi. 1878A. Burnell in Academy 28 Dec. 604/1 On medicine eleven Hindu books and one Muhammadan were published last year. 1880A. Rumsey (title) Moohummudan Law of Inheritance. 1963Cambr. Rev. 20 Apr. 369 (title) Oriental Studies at Cambridge: Muhammadan Law and Urdu Literature.
b. Mohammedan blue, a cobalt blue used as an underglaze colour on Chinese porcelain of the Ming dynasty.
1905Mrs. W. Hodgson How to identify Old Chinese Porc. 8 The most celebrated colour of the Ming period was ‘Mohammedan Blue’. This was brought from Persia, or some neighbouring country, as tribute, and pieces decorated with it were highly valued. 1909S. W. Bushell Chinese Art (ed. 2) II. vii. 33 A pale grey-blue of pure tint, called at the time ‘Mohammedan blue’. 1954H. Garner Oriental Blue & White iii. 15 Mohammedan blue by itself tended to run and..it was mixed with the native ore to give firm outlines. 1964Listener 23 Apr. 683/1 The finished powder was..a mixture of two crude cobalt ores—one a native ore, the other imported from western Asia and known as Mohammedan blue. 1971Country Life 16 Sept. 666/1 The dish..is just that, a rare but reasonably familiar type painted in the brilliant so-called Mohammedan blue.
B. n. A follower of Muhammad; a believer in the doctrine of Muhammad.
1777J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arab., etc., Dissert. p. xli/1 Many of the Mohammedans having a custom of carrying about them verses or chapters of the Alcoran, by way of preservatives or charms. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 62 A person..does not..become free, unless he flies from a foreign infidel master to a Muslim country, and there becomes a Mohammadan. 1878A. Burnell in Academy 28 Dec. 604/1 The sacred books of the Hindus and Muhammadans. 1888S. S. Allnutt in Cambr. Rev. p. lxii, The orthodox Muhammedan in India would disdain [etc.]. 1961[see Black Muslim (black a. 19)]. |