we learn something new everyday! thanx for the info

I always thought it is originally the same name but there are different variants

muhamad, mhamad, mohamad, mehmed, mehmet, mahomet ..etc

anyways, that brings to my mind a good book written by Washington Irving (1783-1859)  "Mahomet and His Successors" 

Bayramin Mubarek olsun

 Merhaba AlphaF

iwant know the difference between the two names and what this name (Mehmet  mean

thanks

There is a process called localization in every language. Loan words usually go through this process once they enter the language. Sometimes, old and new versions of a  loan word may co-exist.

Muhammad is a terrible word from a phonological point of view. To start with there are wovels which do not exist in our language. Therefore they need to be replaced by wovels sounding similar.  Even after this change, the word violates both major and minor wovel harmony rules entailing in the first case the use of only soft wovels with other soft wovels (e.g. e with i) and not allowing round and plain wovels to be used together in a word (e.g. u cannot be followed by a and not to mention "e" which is a total outrage).

In the end, we have a loan word in our language that we cannot be comfortable with unless we indulge in pronouncing our language the Arabic way. Since this name belongs to the prophet, there is not much to be done other than producing a Turkish version of the same noun  (Mehmet or Memed).

 thanks for your help

When I applied for Turkish citizenship the citizenship office would not accept my application because my UK passport said I was born in London, but my Turkish residence permit said I was born in Londra.

I had to get the police to change my residence permit to say London before I could submit my paperwork!

I have a friend called James who always pronounces his name with two syllables if he wants someone to write it down properly "Jam - mess" otherwise they write down Ceyms.