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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