Mawlid or Milad Ul Nabi is known by similer but slightly different names like Eid E Milad, from culture to culture. This is due to the slight differences in pronunciation of Arabic, Urdu and other languages. We have given a list of the different ways this great event is called by different cultures:
Names | Meanings |
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Milād an-Nabī | The Birth of the Prophet (Arabic/Urdu) |
Mevlid-i Şerif | The Blessed Birth (Turkish) |
Mevlud/Mevlid | Birth (Bosnian) |
Mawlūd-e Sharīf | The Blessed Birth (Dari/Urdu) |
Zadruz-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-Nabaoui Echarif | 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) |
Maulid Nabi | The Birth of the Prophet (Indonesian) |
Maulud Nabi | The Birth of the Prophet (Malaysian) |
Maulidi | ? (Swahili) |
Meeladu Nabi | The Birth of the Prophet (Sri Lanka, Maldives, South India) |
Gamou | ? (Wolof) |