মাহদি

Bengali

Alternative forms

• মাহদী (mahdi)
• মাহাদি (mahadi), মাহাদী (mahadi)
• মেহদি (mehdi), মেহদী (mehdi)
• মেহেদি (mehedi), মেহেদী (mehedi)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مهدی (mahdī), from Arabic مَهْدِيّ (mahdiyy, literally “rightly-guided, rational”). The intial e-vowel forms came via an intermediate Hindustani مهدی / महदी (mahdī), which often vocalizes the cluster ah as êh.

Pronunciation

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /mah.d̪i/, [ˈmah.d̪iˑ], /mahad̪i/, [ˈmahad̪iˑ]

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /mah.d̪i/, [ˈmah.d̪iˑ], /mahad̪i/, [ˈmahad̪iˑ]
• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /meh.d̪i/, [ˈmeh.d̪iˑ], /mehed̪i/, [ˈmehed̪iˑ]

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /meh.d̪i/, [ˈmeh.d̪iˑ], /mehed̪i/, [ˈmehed̪iˑ]

Proper noun

মাহদি • (mahdi)

1. (Islam, eschatology) al-Mahdi
2. a male given name, Mahdi, Mehdi, or Mehedi, from Arabic