fqih

English

Alternative forms

• faqih

Etymology

From Moroccan Arabic فقيه (fqīh).

Noun

fqih (plural fqihs or fuqaha')

1. Alternative form of faqih
   • 1973, Robin Leonard Bidwell, Morocco Under Colonial Rule, Routledge, page 171:

     In the early days of the Protectorate, the fqih or clerk-interpreter was often an Algerian who despised the local Arabs as rustics and regarded the Berbers as scarcely human.

   • 1998, Alison Baker, Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women, SUNY Press, page 84:

     So my father asked the fqih, who lived in the same street that I lived in, to take me into his Koranic school.

Anagrams

• fiqh

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic فقيه (fqīh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fkih/

Noun

fqih m (plural fqihs)

1. fqih, faqih

Further reading

• “fqih”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.