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مَوْلِد
birth, nativity /ˈmaw.lid/
nounB2#3914 most common
Also: birthplace, the Prophet's birthday celebration (mawlid), saint's-day festival
Example sentences
اليَومَ هُوَ المَولِدُ النَّبَوِيُّ.
Today is the Prophet's birthday (Mawlid).
يَحتَفِلُ المُسلِمونَ بِالمَولِدِ النَّبَوِيِّ كُلَّ عامٍ.
Muslims celebrate the Prophet's Mawlid every year.
وُلِدَ فِي القَاهِرَةِ، وَهِيَ مَولِدُهُ وَمَسقَطُ رَأسِهِ.
He was born in Cairo, which is his birthplace.
يُقَامُ مَولِدُ السَّيِّدَةِ زَينَبَ فِي القَاهِرَةِ كُلَّ سَنَةٍ وَيَجذِبُ آلافَ الزُّوَّارِ.
The mawlid festival of Sayyida Zaynab is held in Cairo every year and draws thousands of visitors.
تَختَلِفُ المَوَالِدُ الشَّعبِيَّةُ فِي مِصرَ مِن حَيثُ طُقُوسُهَا وَعَادَاتُهَا بِاختِلَافِ المَنَاطِقِ.
Folk mawlid festivals in Egypt differ in their rituals and customs from one region to another.
يَرَى بَعضُ البَاحِثِينَ أَنَّ الاحتِفَالَ بِالمَولِدِ النَّبَوِيِّ لَم يَظهَر إِلَّا فِي القَرنِ الرَّابِعِ الهِجرِيِّ، مِمَّا أَثَارَ جَدَلًا فِقهِيًّا حَولَ مَشرُوعِيَّتِهِ.
Some researchers hold that celebrating the Prophet's Mawlid did not appear until the fourth Islamic century, which sparked juristic debate over its legitimacy.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَوْلِدٌ | مَوَالِدُ |
| Genitive | مَوْلِدٍ | مَوَالِدَ |
| Accusative | مَوْلِدًا | مَوَالِدَ |
| Vocative | يَا مَوْلِدُ | يَا مَوَالِدُ |
Word family
وَلَد (walad)child, boy
وَالِد (wālid)father
وِلَادَة (wilāda)childbirth, delivery
مِيلَاد (mīlād)birth, birthday
مَوْلُود (mawlūd)newborn
Etymology
مَوْلِد comes from the Semitic root و-ل-د (w-l-d), meaning to give birth or beget, a root shared across the Semitic language family. The word itself is a noun of place and time built with the prefix مَ- on that root, so it literally names the place or moment of birth. Over time it narrowed to two specific senses: a person's birthplace, and the annual commemoration of the Prophet Muhammad's birth, later extended to local Egyptian saint's-day festivals.
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