Mawlid (QuranicArabic: مَوْلِدُ النَبِيِّmawlidu n-nabiyyi, “Birth of the Prophet” Standard Arabic: مولد النبيmawlid an-nabī, sometimes simply called in colloquial Arabicمولدmawlid, mevlid, mevlit, mulud among other vernacular pronunciations; sometimes ميلادmīlād) is the observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophetMuhammad which occurs in Rabi al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar.[1] The term Mawlid is also used in some parts of the world, such as Egypt, as a generic term for the birthday celebrations of other historical religious figures such as Sufisaints.[2] Etymology Mawlid is derived from the Arabic root word (Arabic: ولد), meaning to give birth, bear a child, descendant.[3] In contemporary usage, Mawlid refers to the observance of the birthday of Muhammad.[1] Other terms used for this event include: • Mawlûd – Birth of the Prophet (Kurdish) • Mavlid or Mavlidi – Birth of the Prophet (Albanian) • Mawlid an-Nabī (pl. al-Mawālid) – The Birth of the Prophet (Arabic) • Milād an-Nabī – The Birth of the Prophet (Urdu) • Mevlid-iŞerif – The Blessed Birth / Mevlüt – The Name (Turkish) • Mevlud/Mevlid – Birth (Bosnian) • Mawlūd-e Sharīf – The Blessed Birth (Dari/Urdu) • Milād-e Payambar-e Akram – The birth of the great/blessed Prophet (Persian) • Eid al-Mawlid an-Nabawī – Festival of the birth of the Prophet (Arabic) • Eid-e-Milād-un-Nabī – Festival of the birth of the Prophet (Urdu) • Mawlid en-NabaouiEcharif – The Blessed Birth of the Prophet (Algerian) • el Mūled (en-Nabawi)/Mūled en-Nabi – The birth (of the prophet)/Birth of the prophet (Egyptian Arabic) • Yawm an-Nabī – The Day of the Prophet (Arabic) • Maulidur-Rasūl – The Birth of the Messenger of Allah (Malay) • Mulud – The Birth (Javanese) • MaulidNabi – The Birth of the Prophet (Indonesian) • MauludNabi – The Birth of the Prophet (Malaysian) • Maulidi– ? (Swahili) • MeeladuNabi – The Birth of the Prophet (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, South India) • Gamou– ? (Wolof) • Nabi/MahanabiJayanti – The birth of the (great) Prophet. (Sanskrit), (Indian Languages) Maha means great.
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