mullah
See also: Mullah
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Derived from Classical Persian ملا (mullā), from Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”).
Noun edit
mullah (plural mullahs)
- (Islam) A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law.
- Hypernym: cleric
- 2024 April 15, Anne Applebaum, “Why Did U.S. Planes Defend Israel but Not Ukraine?”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- Leading Republicans do not sympathize with the mullahs, do not repeat their talking points, and do not seek to appease them when they make outrageous claims about other countries.
- (India, religious slur, slang) A conservative Muslim leader or cleric, especially one who is hostile against other religions.
- Hypernym: cleric
- (India, religious slur, slang, by extension) A Muslim.
Translations edit
a Muslim religious scholar and teacher
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
mullah (third-person singular simple present mullahs, present participle mullahing, simple past and past participle mullahed)
- (transitive, UK, slang) Alternative form of muller (“to beat, thrash”)
- 2009, Nigel Benn, The Dark Destroyer:
- But I mullahed him. He may have been four inches taller but I punched him through the ropes and knocked the granny and the grandad out of him.
- 2016, Ben Cohen, Carry Me Home: My Autobiography, page 76:
- The Sevens practice session was touch rugby, but every time Harvey got the ball, I absolutely mullahed him. I pushed him, dumped him on his arse, ran through him. Every time.
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mullah
- mullah (islamic scholar)
Declension edit
Inflection of mullah (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | mullah | mullahit | ||
genitive | mullahin | mullahien mullaheiden mullaheitten | ||
partitive | mullahia | mullaheita mullaheja | ||
illative | mullahiin | mullaheihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | mullah | mullahit | ||
accusative | nom. | mullah | mullahit | |
gen. | mullahin | |||
genitive | mullahin | mullahien mullaheiden mullaheitten | ||
partitive | mullahia | mullaheita mullaheja | ||
inessive | mullahissa | mullaheissa | ||
elative | mullahista | mullaheista | ||
illative | mullahiin | mullaheihin | ||
adessive | mullahilla | mullaheilla | ||
ablative | mullahilta | mullaheilta | ||
allative | mullahille | mullaheille | ||
essive | mullahina | mullaheina | ||
translative | mullahiksi | mullaheiksi | ||
abessive | mullahitta | mullaheitta | ||
instructive | — | mullahein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “mullah”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French edit
Noun edit
mullah m (plural mullahs)
- Alternative spelling of mollah