mufti
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Etymology edit
Ultimately from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).
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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[1]:
- 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.
- 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic[2]:
- 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.
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Finnish edit
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mufti
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Inflection of mufti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | mufti | muftit | ||
genitive | muftin | muftien | ||
partitive | muftia | mufteja | ||
illative | muftiin | mufteihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | mufti | muftit | ||
accusative | nom. | mufti | muftit | |
gen. | muftin | |||
genitive | muftin | muftien | ||
partitive | muftia | mufteja | ||
inessive | muftissa | mufteissa | ||
elative | muftista | mufteista | ||
illative | muftiin | mufteihin | ||
adessive | muftilla | mufteilla | ||
ablative | muftilta | mufteilta | ||
allative | muftille | mufteille | ||
essive | muftina | mufteina | ||
translative | muftiksi | mufteiksi | ||
abessive | muftitta | mufteitta | ||
instructive | — | muftein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).
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Noun edit
mufti m (plural muftis)
- (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)
- 1680, Molière, “Acte IV, Scene V”, in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme [The Middle-Class Aristocrat][3], page 89:
- Le Mufti commande aux Turcs de baſtonner le Bourgeois, […]
- The mufti orders the Turks to batter the bourgeois, […]
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Further reading edit
- “mufti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müftî), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī), from مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).
Pronunciation edit
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mufti (plural muftik)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | mufti | muftik |
accusative | muftit | muftikat |
dative | muftinak | muftiknak |
instrumental | muftival | muftikkal |
causal-final | muftiért | muftikért |
translative | muftivá | muftikká |
terminative | muftiig | muftikig |
essive-formal | muftiként | muftikként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | muftiban | muftikban |
superessive | muftin | muftikon |
adessive | muftinál | muftiknál |
illative | muftiba | muftikba |
sublative | muftira | muftikra |
allative | muftihoz | muftikhoz |
elative | muftiból | muftikból |
delative | muftiról | muftikról |
ablative | muftitól | muftiktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
muftié | muftiké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
muftiéi | muftikéi |
Possessive forms of mufti | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | muftim | muftijaim |
2nd person sing. | muftid | muftijaid |
3rd person sing. | muftija | muftijai |
1st person plural | muftink | muftijaink |
2nd person plural | muftitok | muftijaitok |
3rd person plural | muftijuk | muftijaik |
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mufti m (invariable)
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mufti (Jawi spelling مفتي, plural mufti-mufti, informal 1st possessive muftiku, 2nd possessive muftimu, 3rd possessive muftinya)
Further reading edit
- “mufti” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).
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mufti m pers
- (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)
- Pierwszym muftim Polski był Jakub Szynkiewicz.
- The first mufti of Poland was Jakub Szynkiewicz.
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Further reading edit
- mufti in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mufti m (plural muftis)
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
mufti (ma class, plural mamufti)
- mufti (Muslim scholar)
Adjective edit
mufti (invariable)
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog)
- Rhymes: -ufti, (more native-sounding) -upti
- Syllabification: muf‧ti
Noun edit
mufti (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜉ᜔ᜆᜒ)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “mufti”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Uzbek edit
Other scripts | |
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Cyrillic | муфти (mufti) |
Latin | mufti |
Perso-Arabic |
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).
Noun edit
mufti (plural muftilar)