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mufti
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmʌfti/, (only in sense 1) /ˈmʊfti/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌfti, (sense 1) -ʊfti
Noun
mufti (countable and uncountable, plural muftis)
- (countable, Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.
- Hypernym: cleric
- 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
- Mujtahidd's online claims have prompted an aggressive backlash against social media from the Saudi religious establishment. The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh, said in January that Twitter was a platform for "promoting lies" and a "dangerous practice" that should be avoided by Muslims. Commentators have described the phenomenon as symbolic of the growing political debate about use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia.
- (uncountable, Australia, British, New Zealand) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.
- Synonym: civvies
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 91:
- He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
- 1940 May, “The Irish Railways Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 295:
- The neutrality, however, causes some peculiar situations, such as that arising from the prohibition of uniforms other than those of the Eireann Defence Forces and the Diplomatic Corps. This would be simple if no one from Eire were a sailor, soldier, or airman in the British Forces, but thousands of them are, and as such they may not wear mufti unless on leave from the B.E.F.
- 2002 April 3, Dave Wilma, “First nuclear submarine U.S.S. Nautilus visits Seattle and crew secretly buys Bar's Leak on June 3, 1958”, in HistoryLink.org: Essay 3739:
- The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.
Derived terms
Translations
Muslim scholar
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civilian dress
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Danish
Etymology
Noun
mufti c (singular definite muftien, plural indefinite muftier)
Inflection
Further reading
- “mufti” in Den Danske Ordbog
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Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mufti
Declension
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mufti m (plural muftis)
- (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)
- 1680, Molière, “Acte IV, Scene V”, in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme [The Middle-Class Aristocrat], page 89:
- Le Mufti commande aux Turcs de baſtonner le Bourgeois, […]
- The mufti orders the Turks to batter the bourgeois, […]
Related terms
Further reading
- “mufti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Hungarian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müftî), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī), from مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mufti (plural muftik)
Declension
Derived terms
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Italian
Noun
mufti m (invariable)
Malay
Etymology
From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Further reading
- “mufti” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mufti m pers
- (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)
- Pierwszym muftim Polski był Jakub Szynkiewicz.
- The first mufti of Poland was Jakub Szynkiewicz.
Declension
Declension of mufti
Related terms
noun
Further reading
- mufti in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Portuguese
Etymology
From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mufti m (plural muftis)
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
mufti m pers
- mufti (Muslim scholar)
Declension
Further reading
- “mufti”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
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Swahili
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mufti class V (plural mamufti class VI)
- mufti (Muslim scholar)
Adjective
mufti (invariable)
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
mufti c
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈmufti/ [ˈmuf.t̪ɪ]
- Rhymes: -ufti, (with nativization) -upti
- Syllabification: muf‧ti
Noun
mufti (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜉ᜔ᜆᜒ)
See also
Further reading
- “mufti”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Uzbek
Etymology
Noun
mufti (plural muftilar)
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