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See also: MUFTI, Mufti, muftì, and muftí

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)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
    • 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic:
      The innate reluctance of the Englishman to make himself conspicuous has stood him here in good stead. Except on special occasions, the British officers are almost always in mufti.
    • 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

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Danish

Etymology

Derived from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

Noun

mufti c (singular definite muftien, plural indefinite muftier)

  1. mufti

Inflection

More information common gender, singular ...

Further reading

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Finnish

Etymology

Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmufti/, [ˈmuft̪i]
  • Rhymes: -ufti
  • Syllabification(key): muf‧ti
  • Hyphenation(key): muf‧ti

Noun

mufti

  1. mufti

Declension

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More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...
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French

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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)

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Further reading

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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

  • IPA(key): [ˈmufti]
  • Hyphenation: muf‧ti
  • Rhymes: -ti

Noun

mufti (plural muftik)

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Declension

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More information possessor, single possession ...

Derived terms

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Italian

Noun

mufti m (invariable)

  1. (rare) alternative form of muftì

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, to deliver a formal opinion).

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti (Jawi spelling مفتي, plural mufti-mufti)

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Further reading

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, to deliver a formal opinion).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuf.ti/
  • Rhymes: -ufti
  • Syllabification: muf‧ti

Noun

mufti m pers

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)
    Pierwszym muftim Polski był Jakub Szynkiewicz.
    The first mufti of Poland was Jakub Szynkiewicz.

Declension

noun

Further reading

  • mufti in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, to deliver a formal opinion).

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti m (plural muftis)

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti m pers

  1. mufti (Muslim scholar)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

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

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti class V (plural mamufti class VI)

  1. mufti (Muslim scholar)

Adjective

mufti (invariable)

  1. elegant, pleasing, stylish

Swedish

Etymology

Derived from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

Noun

mufti c

  1. mufti

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

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]
    • IPA(key): (with nativization) /ˈmupti/ [ˈmup.t̪ɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ufti, (with nativization) -upti
  • Syllabification: muf‧ti

Noun

mufti (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜉ᜔ᜆᜒ)

  1. mufti (civilian dress)
  2. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

See also

Further reading

  • mufti”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Uzbek

More information Yangi Imlo, Cyrillic ...

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

Noun

mufti (plural muftilar)

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

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