mufti
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mufti¹
- /ˈmʌfti/
- /ˈmʊfti/
Rhymes with -ʌfti, (sense 1) -ʊfti
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).
noun muftis · muftee · mufty
- A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa. 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
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A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military or the police, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.
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.
Similar: civvies
MUFTI²
proper noun
Translations
Every language
noun Muslim scholar
| 한국어 | 무프티 mupeuti |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | ムフティー mufutī |
| 中文 | 穆夫提 mùfūtí |
| हिन्दी | मुफ़्ती muftī, मुफ्ती muphtī |
| Kiswahili | mufti |
| Português | mufti |
| Français | mufti |
| Deutsch | Mufti, Großmufti |
| Italiano | muftì |
| Ελληνικά | μουφτής mouftís |
| Română | muftiu |
| Русский | му́фтий múftij |
| العربية | مُفْتٍ muftin, مُفْتِي muftī |
| עברית | מֻפְתִּי, מופתי muftí |
noun civilian dress
| 日本語 | 私服 shifuku, 平服 heifuku, 便衣隊 ben'itai |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 便服 biànfú, 常服 chángfú, 便裝 /便装 biànzhuāng |
| Português | traje à paisana |
| Français | tenue civile |
| Deutsch | Zivil n Zivilkleidung |
| Italiano | abito civile |
| Ελληνικά | πολιτικά ρούχα politiká roúcha, πολιτικά politiká |
| Русский | шта́тское пла́тье štátskoje plátʹje, шта́тское štátskoje, гражда́нское graždánskoje |
Talk about this word "mufti." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mufti. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. mufti. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mufti "mufti." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mufti.Cite this
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title = {mufti},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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