English - Turkish
Definition of mawlid in English Turkish dictionary
- (Din) Hz. Muhammed Aleyhissalâtü Vesselâm'ın doğumunu anlatan manzum eser, dini manzume
- mevlid
English - English
Definition of mawlid in English English dictionary
- A holiday celebrating the birthday of the prophet Muhammad
- (Din) Mawlid (Milād an-Nabī) (Qur'anic Arabic: مَوْلِدُ النَبِيِّ mawlid(u) (n-)nabiyy(i), “Birth of the Prophet” Standard Arabic: مولد النبي mawlid an-nabī, sometimes simply called in colloquial Arabic مولد , mawlid, mevlid, mevlit, mulud, milad among other vernacular pronunciations) is a term used to refer to the observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad which occurs in Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar
- or milad In Islam, the birthday of a holy figure, especially Muhammad. His birthday is fixed by tradition as the 12th day of the month of Rab I (actually the day of his death). First celebrated by the Muslim faithful in the 13th century, Muhammad's birthday was preceded by a month of merrymaking, which ended with animal sacrifices and a torchlight procession. The day of the mawlid included a public sermon and a feast. Though mawlid festivities are considered idolatrous by some Islamic fundamentalists, they continue to be widely celebrated throughout the Muslim world and have been extended to popular saints and the founders of Sufi brotherhoods