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:
- Mawlid an-Nabī - The Birth of the Prophet (Arabic)
- 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)