Etymology

Baphomet

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Today it means: A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that the Knights Templar worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions. Full definition →

Medieval Latin Baphometh ← Occitan Bafometz ← Andalusian Arabic مَحُمَّدْ
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  1. Arabic · derived fromمُحَمَّد
  2. Andalusian Arabic · derived fromمَحُمَّدْ“Maḥummad”
  3. Occitan · derived fromBafometz
  4. Medieval Latin · derived fromBaphometh
  5. English todayBaphomet

From Medieval Latin Baphometh, deriving from Occitan Bafometz. Ostensibly a corruption of Andalusian Arabic مَحُمَّدْ (“Maḥummad”), ultimately deriving from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad) (compare Old Catalan Mafumet and Old Galician-Portuguese Mafomat), which would make it a doublet of mammet and Muhammad. Other sources have been suggested.

Words from the same roots

Andalusian Arabicمَحُمَّدْ all →

mammet

Arabicمُحَمَّد all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.