mullah

See also: Mullah

English

Etymology

From Turkish molla, Persian (mollâ), from Arabic مَوْلًى‎ (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmʊ.lə/, /ˈmʌ.lə/
Rhymes: -ʊlə

Noun

mullah (plural mullahs)

(Islam) A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law.

Translations

a Muslim religious scholar and teacher

Albanian: mulla (sq) m
Arabic: مُلَّا‎‎ m (mullā), مَوْلًى‎‎ m (mawlan)
Azerbaijani: molla (az)
Bashkir: мулла (mulla)
Belarusian: мула́ m (mulá)
Bengali: মোল্লা (molla)
Bulgarian: молла́ m (mollá)
Chechen: молла (molla)
Chinese:
Dungan: мола (mola)

Mandarin: 毛拉 (zh) (máolā), 穆拉 (mùlā)
Finnish: mullah (fi)
French: mollah (fr) m
German: Mullah (de) m, Mulla (de) m, Molla m
Greek: μουλάς (el) m (moulás)
Hebrew: מולא‎‎ m (mula)
Hindi: मुल्ला (hi) m (mullā)
Indonesian: mullah (id)
Japanese: ムッラー (murra)
Kazakh: молда (molda)
Korean: 물라 (mulla)
Kumyk: молла
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: mela (ku)

Sorani: مه‌لا‎‎ (ku)

Kyrgyz: молдо (moldo)
Malay: mullah
Nogai: молла (molla)
Pashto: ملا‎‎ (ps) m (mәlã, molã)
Persian: ملا‎‎ (fa) (mollâ)
Polish: mułła m
Portuguese: mulá (pt) m
Russian: мулла́ (ru) m (mullá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мула m

Roman: mula (sh) m
Spanish: mulá m
Tajik: мулло (mullo)
Tatar: мулла (tt) (mulla)
Turkish: molla (tr)
Turkmen: molla
Ukrainian: мулла́ m (mullá)
Urdu: ملا‎‎ m (mullā)
Uyghur: موللا‎‎ (ug) (molla), موللام‎‎ (mollam)
Uzbek: mulla (uz)

Anagrams

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