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BoyChechen, Avar & North Caucasian

Akhmed

Ахмед

Russified spelling of the Arabic Ahmad: "most praised".

Meaning and origin

Akhmed is the shape Ahmad regularly took once it passed through Russian-language civil registration, a small vowel shift that hardened into an everyday spelling of its own across Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.

How to pronounce Akhmed

English (US)AHK-med /ˈɑːkmɛd/

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