From Arabic هَاشِمِيّ (hāšimiyy, “Hashemite”) with English suffix -ite, from هَاشِم (hāšim, “Hashim”). The name signifies "breaker of bread", from هَشَمَ (hašama, “to destroy, smash”).

Hashemite (plural Hashemites)

1. One who lays claim to being a direct descendant of Hashim, the great grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Hashemite (not comparable)

1. Relating to or being descendants of Hashim.
   • 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:

     In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan.

• Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan