mufti

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See also: MUFTI, Mufti, muftì, and muftí

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, fatwa-deliverer, literally deliverer of formal opinion).

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti (countable and uncountable, plural muftis)

  1. (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:
      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.
  2. (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:
      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.

Derived terms

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī)

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti

  1. mufti

Declension

Inflection of mufti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
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.
Possessive forms of mufti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative muftini muftini
accusative nom. muftini muftini
gen. muftini
genitive muftini muftieni
partitive muftiani muftejani
inessive muftissani mufteissani
elative muftistani mufteistani
illative muftiini mufteihini
adessive muftillani mufteillani
ablative muftiltani mufteiltani
allative muftilleni mufteilleni
essive muftinani mufteinani
translative muftikseni mufteikseni
abessive muftittani mufteittani
instructive
comitative mufteineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative muftisi muftisi
accusative nom. muftisi muftisi
gen. muftisi
genitive muftisi muftiesi
partitive muftiasi muftejasi
inessive muftissasi mufteissasi
elative muftistasi mufteistasi
illative muftiisi mufteihisi
adessive muftillasi mufteillasi
ablative muftiltasi mufteiltasi
allative muftillesi mufteillesi
essive muftinasi mufteinasi
translative muftiksesi mufteiksesi
abessive muftittasi mufteittasi
instructive
comitative mufteinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative muftimme muftimme
accusative nom. muftimme muftimme
gen. muftimme
genitive muftimme muftiemme
partitive muftiamme muftejamme
inessive muftissamme mufteissamme
elative muftistamme mufteistamme
illative muftiimme mufteihimme
adessive muftillamme mufteillamme
ablative muftiltamme mufteiltamme
allative muftillemme mufteillemme
essive muftinamme mufteinamme
translative muftiksemme mufteiksemme
abessive muftittamme mufteittamme
instructive
comitative mufteinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative muftinne muftinne
accusative nom. muftinne muftinne
gen. muftinne
genitive muftinne muftienne
partitive muftianne muftejanne
inessive muftissanne mufteissanne
elative muftistanne mufteistanne
illative muftiinne mufteihinne
adessive muftillanne mufteillanne
ablative muftiltanne mufteiltanne
allative muftillenne mufteillenne
essive muftinanne mufteinanne
translative muftiksenne mufteiksenne
abessive muftittanne mufteittanne
instructive
comitative mufteinenne

French

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, to deliver a formal opinion).

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti m (plural muftis)

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müftî), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī), from مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, to deliver a formal opinion).

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti (plural muftik)

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
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
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. muftim muftijaim(or muftiim)
2nd person sing. muftid muftijaid(or muftiid)
3rd person sing. muftija muftijai(or muftii)
1st person plural muftink muftijaink(or muftiink)
2nd person plural muftitok muftijaitok(or muftiitok)
3rd person plural muftijuk muftijaik(or muftiik)

Derived terms

Italian

Noun

mufti m (invariable)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of muftì

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, to deliver a formal opinion).

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti (Jawi spelling مفتي, plural mufti-mufti, informal 1st possessive muftiku, 2nd possessive muftimu, 3rd possessive muftinya)

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Further reading

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, to deliver a formal opinion).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuf.ti/
  • Rhymes: -ufti
  • Syllabification: muf‧ti

Noun

mufti m pers

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)
    Pierwszym muftim Polski był Jakub Szynkiewicz.
    The first mufti of Poland was Jakub Szynkiewicz.

Declension

noun

Further reading

  • mufti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, to deliver a formal opinion).

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti m (plural muftis)

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Slovak

Pronunciation

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Noun

mufti m pers

  1. mufti (Muslim scholar)

Declension

Further reading

  • mufti”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti class V (plural mamufti class VI)

  1. mufti (Muslim scholar)

Adjective

mufti (invariable)

  1. elegant, pleasing, stylish

Swedish

Etymology

Derived from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

Noun

mufti c

  1. mufti

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, fatwa-deliverer, literally deliverer of formal opinion).

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜉ᜔ᜆᜒ)

  1. mufti (civilian dress)
  2. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

See also

Further reading

  • mufti”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Uzbek

Other scripts
Yangi Imlo
Cyrillic муфти
Latin mufti
Perso-Arabic
(Afghanistan)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

Noun

mufti (plural muftilar)

  1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)