Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Islam A male religious teacher or leader.
- n. Islam Used as a form of address for such a man.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as molla.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See mollah.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque
Etymologies
- From Turkish molla, Persian ملا, from Arabic مولى (mawla), ‘vicar’, ‘guardian’. (Wiktionary)
- Urdu mullā, from Persian, from Arabic mawlā, master, friend, from waliya, to become near, be in charge; see wly in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And, in a sense, that is true: he never finished the Quranic schooling required to get the title mullah, but his followers call him that anyway as a sign of respect.”
“A local mullah is appealing for donations to build a new mosque.”
“Posted in mullah omar, osama bin laden, pakistan, taliban.”
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“Then, coming out of the telephone booth, he got into conversation with two bearded young men who were in mullah's costume.”
“The religious scholar - whose studies qualify him for the honorific of "mullah" - lacks Hakimullah's charisma and reputation for boldness but retains a sizable following.”
“We have a proverb: half a mullah is a danger to your faith, half a doctor is a danger to your life.”
“We went to a mullah, and we really said that this is the best way, through the community and through the leader, which is in the time - the mask - the mullah is the leader of that community.”
“Maybe the mullah was a reporter from "The Onion." rr | 3.12.09 @ 12: 09PM”
“And the mullahs have opened all the playbooks on repression and crowd control simultaneously; it's a smorgasboard attempt at blocking the rising tide of resentment; if you'll recall, that's called the mullah's-ass-on-a-pressure-cooker-lid-to-retard-fulmination rule.”
“Their encounters with the "mullah" felt like bad first dates, with the Americans posing robotic questions about the village.”
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