transliteration
Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus ''trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → , Cyrillic → , Greek → the digraph , Armenian → or ...
of the male
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...
given name (), common in most parts of the
Islamic world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere to the religious beliefs and laws of Islam or to societies in which Islam is practiced. In ...
. It comes from the Arabic
triconsonantal
The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root). Such abstract consonantal roots are used in the formation of actual words by adding the vowel ...
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monot ...
''.
Siam Mahmud
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Mahmood (singer)
Alessandro Mahmoud (, ; born 12 September 1992), known professionally as Mahmood, is an Italian singer-songwriter. He rose to prominence after competing on the sixth season of the Italian version of '' The X Factor''. He has won the Sanremo Mu ...
(born 1992), full name Alessandro Mahmoud, Italian singer of Italian and Egyptian origin
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Mahmoud (horse)
Mahmoud (1933–1962) was a French-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career which lasted from April 1935 to September 1936 he ran eleven times and won four races. In 1935 he won two of Britain's most important two-year- ...
(foaled 1933),
French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
-bred, British-trained
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are ...
racehorse
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Mehmood (actor)
Mehmood Ali (29 September 1932 – 23 July 2004), popularly known simply as Mehmood, was an Indian actor, singer, director and producer best known for playing comic roles in Hindi films.Mahmood Ali (1928–2008), Pakistani radio, television and stage artist
* Mahmood Hussain (cricketer) (1932–1991), Pakistani Test cricketer
* Mahmood Hussain (councillor), former Lord Mayor of
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the We ...
, England
* Mahmood Mamdani (born 1946), Ugandan academic, author and political commentator
* Mahmood Monshipouri (born 1952), Iranian-born American scholar, educator, and author
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Mahmood Shaam
Mahmood Shaam ( ur, ) born Tariq Mahmood ( ur, ) on 5 February 1940, is a Pakistani Urdu language journalist, poet, writer and news analyst.
After serving Pakistan's largest newspaper Jang Group for more than 16 years continuously as Grou ...
(born 1940), Pakistani Urdu language journalist, poet writer and analyst
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Mahmood (singer)
Alessandro Mahmoud (, ; born 12 September 1992), known professionally as Mahmood, is an Italian singer-songwriter. He rose to prominence after competing on the sixth season of the Italian version of '' The X Factor''. He has won the Sanremo Mu ...
(born 1992), Italian singer-songwriter and participant in
Eurovision Song Contest 2019
The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 was the 64th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Tel Aviv, Israel, following the country's victory at the 2018 contest with the song " Toy" by Netta. Organised by the European Broa ...
and
Eurovision Song Contest 2022
The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 was the 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Turin, Italy, following the country's victory at the with the song "" by Måneskin. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and ...
Mahmoud
* Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine
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Mahmoud al-Abrash
Mahmoud al-Abrash or Mahmoud el-Abrache ( ar, محمود الأبرش) (born 1944) is a Syrian politician. Career
He was originally an engineer in public works. He then left his job to engage in politics and became a member of the Baath party. H ...
(born 1944), Syrian politician
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Mahmoud Afshartous
Mahmoud Afshartous ( fa, محمود افشارطوس), also written Afshartoos (1907–24 April 1953), was an Iranian general and chief of police during the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Afshartous was abducted and killed by an ...
(1907–1953), Iranian military officer
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدینژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956),
, former President of Iran
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Mahmoud Ahmed
Mahmoud Ahmed ( Amharic: ማሕሙድ አህመድ; born 8 May 1941) is an Ethiopian singer. He gained great popularity in Ethiopia in the 1970s and among the Ethiopian diaspora in the 1980s, before rising to international fame with African mus ...
, Ethiopian musician
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Mahmoud Baharmast
Mahmoud Baharmast (1899–1977) was an Iranian major general who served as the chief of staff of the Imperial Army in Iran in the period 1952–1953.
Early life and education
Baharmast was born in 1899 in Tehran. He graduated from Dar al-Fonun ...
, Iranian army general
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Mahmoud Balbaa
Mahmoud Saad Balbaa (born 30 January 1952) is an Egyptian engineer, businessman and former minister of electricity and energy in the Qandil cabinet.
Career
Balbaa was a member of the now disbanded National Democratic Party. An engineer by trai ...
, Egyptian businessman and politician
* Mahmoud Chahoud (born 1976), Lebanese footballer
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Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish ( ar, محمود درويش, Maḥmūd Darwīsh, 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards for his works. Darwish used Palestine ...
Mahmoud el-Meliguy
Mahmoud el-Meliguy ( arz, محمود المليجي, ; 22 December 1910 – 6 June 1983) was an Egyptian screenwriter and an actor of film, theater, and television. He started his career playing minor roles, but achieved stardom in the late ...
, Egyptian Actor
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Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha
Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha (April 26, 1888 – December 28, 1948) ( ar, محمود فهمى النقراشى باشا, ) was an Egyptian political figure. He was the second prime minister of the Kingdom of Egypt.
Early life ...
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (born Chris Wayne Jackson; March 9, 1969) is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for nine years with the Denver Nuggets, Sacramento Kings and Vancouver Gri ...
, American basketball player
* Mahmoud el-Sisi (born 1982), Egyptian brigadier general and son of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi
* Mahmoud Zakzouk (1933–2020), Egyptian academic
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Mahmoud Abu Zeid
Mahmoud Abu Zeid, also known as Shawkan (born c. 1987), an Egyptian photojournalist, was arrested for taking photos of the Rabaa massacre in Cairo, Egypt and imprisoned during the post-coup unrest by the Egyptian government since 2013, where h ...
, also known as Shawkan, (born c. 1987), Egyptian photojournalist
* Mahmoud Taleghani, Iranian Shia Cleric
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Mahmoud Alavi
Al-Zobb Mahmoud Alavi ( fa, محمود علوی; born 4 May 1954) is an Iranian conservative politician, and formerly minister of intelligence in Hassan Rouhani's government.
Early life
Alavi was born in Lamerd, Fars province, in 1954. He ho ...
, Iranian Shia Cleric
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Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi ( fa, سید محمود هاشمی شاهرودی, 15 August 1948 – 24 December 2018) was an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric and conservative politician who was the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council fr ...
, Iranian Shia Cleric
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Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi
Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi or Seyyed Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi (born 1941) is an Iranian librarian, Bibliographer and manuscript expert. He is the director of Mar'ashi Najafi Library, which he says is one of the largest libraries in Iran and the wo ...
Mahmoud Salavati
Mahmoud Salavati ( fa, محمود صلواتی; born 21 March 1953 in Khomeini Shahr, Isfahan Province) is a jurist, author, commentator and translator of the Quran and Nahj, religious scholar and member of the Assembly of Qom Seminary Schola ...
, Iranian Shia Cleric
Mahmud
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Mahmud al-Kashgari
Mahmud ibn Husayn ibn Muhammed al-Kashgari, ''Maḥmūd ibnu 'l-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Kāšġarī'', , tr, Kaşgarlı Mahmûd, ug, مەھمۇد قەشقىرى, ''Mehmud Qeshqiri'' / Мәһмуд Қәшқири uz, Mahmud Qashg'ariy / М ...
Mahmud I
Mahmud I ( ota, محمود اول, tr, I. Mahmud, 2 August 1696 13 December 1754), known as Mahmud the Hunchback, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754. He took over the throne after the Patrona Halil rebellion and he kept g ...
, Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1730–1754
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Mahmud II
Mahmud II ( ota, محمود ثانى, Maḥmûd-u s̠ânî, tr, II. Mahmud; 20 July 1785 – 1 July 1839) was the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839.
His reign is recognized for the extensive administrative, ...
, Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1808–1839
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Mahmud II of Great Seljuk
Mahmud II ( 1105 – 1131) was the Seljuk sultan of Baghdad from 1118–1131 following the death of his father Muhammad I Tapar. At the time Mahmud was fourteen, and ruled over Iraq and Persia.
Biography
During Mahmud's early reign, his vassa ...
Mahmud of Ghazni
Yamīn-ud-Dawla Abul-Qāṣim Maḥmūd ibn Sebüktegīn ( fa, ; 2 November 971 – 30 April 1030), usually known as Mahmud of Ghazni or Mahmud Ghaznavi ( fa, ), was the founder of the Turkic Ghaznavid dynasty, ruling from 998 to 1030. At th ...
, ruler of Ghazni 997–1030
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Mahmud Shah (Sultan of Malacca)
Sultan Mahmud Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah (died 1528) ruled the Sultanate of Malacca from 1488 to 1511, and again as pretender to the throne from 1513 to 1528. He was son to Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah. As a monarch, he was kno ...
, Sultan of Malacca 1488–1528
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Mahmud Shah Durrani
Mahmud Shah Durrani ( Persian: ; 1769 – 18 April 1829), also known as Shah Mahmud, or Mahmud Shah Abdali, was the ruler of the Durrani Empire between 1801 and 1803, and again between 1809 and 1818. From 1818 to 1829, he was the emir of Herat. A ...
Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (also known as Shaykh al-Hind; 1851–1920) was an Indian Muslim scholar and an activist of the Indian independence movement, who co-founded the Jamia Millia Islamia university and launched the Silk Letter Movement for ...
Mufti Mahmud
Mufti Mehmood ( ur, ; 1919–1980) was a Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar who was one of the founding members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI).Mahmut Bezgin, Turkish footballer
* Mahmut Boz, Turkish footballer
* Mahmut Bozteke (born 1997), Turkish para taekwondo practitioner
* Mahmut Celal Bayar, third President of Turkey
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Mahmut Cuhruk
Mahmut Cuhruk (1925 – 8 October 2018) was a Turkish judge. He was president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey from 2 March 1988 until 1 March 1990.
Cuhruk was born in Yozgat in 1925. He died in Ankara
Ankara ( , ; ), historically know ...
, Turkish judge
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Mahmut Demir
Mahmut Demir (21 January 1970 in Amasya, Turkey), is a former Turkish Olympic, World and European champion sports in the super heavyweight class. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Men's Freestyle wrestling.
Wrestling career
He was bor ...
, Turkish sport wrestler
* Mahmut Hoşgiz, Turkish footballer
* Mahmut Özdemir (born 1987), German politician of Turkish descent
* Mahmut Özgener, Turkish Football Federation president
* Mahmut Şenol, Turkish author
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Mahmut Tekdemir
Mahmut Tekdemir (born 20 January 1988) is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for İstanbul Başakşehir
Club career
Tekdemir holds İstanbul Başakşehir's all-time appearances record with 483 overal ...
, Turkish footballer
* Mahmut Yavuz, Turkish navy officer and ultramarathon runner
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Mahmut Yıldırım Mahmut Yıldırım (born 1951, Yenidal, Solhan, Bingöl Province), better known as Yeşil (Turkish for "Green"), is a Turkish rogue agent of Zaza origins. He is wanted for the murders of eight people in Turkey. Among the murders he is accused of ...
, Kurdish contract killer
* Mahmut Yilmaz, German footballer of Turkish descent
Mehmood
* Mehmood Ali, Indian film actor in Bollywood, credited as Mehmood
* Mehmood Aslam, Pakistani Television & Stage Actor
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Mehmood Bhatti
Mehmood Bhatti is a Pakistani-French fashion designer
Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and bod ...
, Pakistani fashion designer
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Mehmood Quaraishy
Mehmood Quraishy (born 4 February 1942), was a Kenyan cricketer who played three One day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup for East Africa. He also appeared in one first-class cricket match in the 1975 season, having earlier played a match ...
Abdullah al Mahmood
Abdullah Al Mahmood ( bn, আব্দুল্লাহ আল মাহমুদ; 1900–1975) was a Bengali politician and lawyer who served as the Minister of Industries and Natural Resources of Pakistan.
Early life and education
Abdullah a ...
Sajid Mahmood
Sajid Iqbal Mahmood ( Urdu: ساجد اقبال محمود, ''Sājid Iqbāl Maḥmūd''; born 21 December 1981) is a former English cricketer, who played all formats of the game. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played international c ...
Shahid Mahmood
Shahid Mahmood ( Urdu: شاہد محمود) (17 March 1939 – 13 December 2020) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test in 1962.
He played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1957 to 1969. He played his only Test on the tour ...
, Pakistani cricketer
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Syed Mahmood
Justice Syed Mahmood (also spelled Sayyid Mahmud; 24 May 1850 – 8 May 1903) was Puisne Judge of the High Court, North-Western Provinces of British India from 1887 to 1893, after having served in the High Court in a temporary capacity as offi ...
, Indian jurist
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Tahir Mahmood
Tahir Mahmood is an Indian legal scholar and author of a large number of books frequently cited in the judgments of the Supreme Court of India and numerous High Courts. He had his higher legal education in Aligarh and London and has over fifty ...
, Indian jurist
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Talat Mahmood
Talat Mahmood (24 February 1924 – 9 May 1998) was an Indian playback singer who is considered one of the popular male Indian film song and ghazal singers. Although he tried his luck as a film actor, he did not succeed a great deal in act ...
, Indian singer and actor
* Zia Mahmood, Pakistani bridge player
Mahmoud
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Ahmad Mahmoud
Ahmad E'ta ( fa, احمد اعطا), better known by his pen name Ahmad Mahmoud ( fa, احمد محمود); (December 25, 1931 – October 4, 2002) was a prominent Iranian novelist from Ahvaz city in the southwest of Iran.
One of his works, ''T ...
, Iranian novelist
* Alessandro Mahmoud, better known as Mahmood, Italian singer
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Emtithal Mahmoud
Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud ( ar, إمتثال "إيمي" محمود; born 1992 or 1993 in Darfur, Sudan) is a Sudanese-American poet and activist, who won the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam championship. In 2018, she became UNHCR Goodwill Ambassa ...
Hayat Mahmud
Hayat Mahmud ( bn, হায়াত মাহমুদ) was a late 18th-century Bengali Muslim commander who later became the feudal lord of Buzurg-Umedpur in Barisal. He is best known as a freedom fighter against the British East India Compan ...
, Bengali feudal lord and military commander
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Heyat Mahmud
Qadi Heyat Mahmud ( bn, হেয়াত মামুদ; 1693–1760) was a medieval Bengali poet, mystic and judge. Although his works, like other Middle Bengali poetry, are religion-centric, they are marked by social consciousness and toleran ...
, medieval Bengali poet
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Khaled Mahmud
Khaled Mahmud Sujon (born 26 July 1971) is a former Bangladeshi cricketer and a former Test and One Day International captain. A medium-pace bowler and middle-order batsman, he played international cricket for Bangladesh from 1998 to 2006, captai ...
, Bangladeshi cricketer
* Mahmud Mahmud, Iranian academic and politician
Hasnat Mehmood
Hasnat Mehmood ( ur, حسنات محمود) is a Pakistani visual artist who lives and works in Dubai, UAE. He was born on 3 March 1978 in Jhelum.
Art career
Hasnat Mehmood was trained as a traditional miniature painter at the National Coll ...