Skip to content
HOW TO PRONOUNCE

ahmad

/ˈɑmɑd/

Press play to hear how to pronounce ahmad.

American Pronunciation Guide · 1:05
Watch on YouTube ↗

What does ahmad mean?

proper noun

  1. A male given name from Arabic or Persian, meaning “most praiseworthy”; variant forms Aahmed, Achmad, Achmat, Achmed, Achmet, Ahamed, Ahmed, Ahmet.
  2. A surname from Arabic or Persian.

Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0

IPA pronunciation

/ˈɑmɑd/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.

In the pages of books

See this word in context.

He also wished to include the eight famous Galland Tales:--"Zayn Al-Asnam," "Alaeddin," "Khudadad and his Brothers," "The Kaliph's Night Adventure," "Ali Baba," "Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad," "Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu," and "The Two Sisters who Envied their Cadette;" but the only Oriental text he could find was a Hindustani version of Galland's tales "Orientalised and divested of their inordinate Gallicism."
Thomas WrightThe Life of Sir Richard BurtonProject Gutenberg ebook #4315