mufti

• muftee (archaic)
• mufty (archaic)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌfti/, (only in sense 1) /ˈmʊfti/

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• Rhymes: -ʌfti, (sense 1) -ʊfti

mufti (countable and uncountable, plural muftis)

1. (countable, Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa.
   • 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, Britain, 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.
   • 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.

   • 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, Wilma, Dave, “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.

   Synonym: civvies

• mufti day

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

• IPA^(key): /myf.ti/

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• Rhymes: -i

mufti m (plural muftis)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

• fatwa

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmufti]
• Hyphenation: muf‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

mufti (plural muftik)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

• főmufti

• fetva

mufti m (invariable)

1. (rare) Alternative form of muftì

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

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

• “mufti” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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

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

mufti m pers

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

   Pierwszym muftim Polski był Jakub Szynkiewicz.

   The first mufti of Poland was Jakub Szynkiewicz.

• mufti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mufti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

mufti m (plural muftis)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

mufti (plural muftilar)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)