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moolvi

moolvi is the alternative spelling of maulvi.

Meaning of maulvi

Noun

maulvi (plural maulvis)

  1. An imam; a Muslim doctor of law.
  2. (South-Asia, broadly) Any man of learning; a scholar, a teacher of Classical languages.
    • He had a maulvi and a pandit to teach him Urdu and Hindi.2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 10

Forms of moolvi

pluralmoolvis

Questions about moolvi

What is moolvi the alternative spelling of?
Moolvi is the alternative spelling of maulvi.

Words near moolvi in the dictionary

  1. Moolort
  2. Moolpa
  3. mools
  4. moolvee
  5. moolvees
  6. moolvi
  7. moolvie
  8. moolvies
  9. moolvis
  10. mooly
  11. moom pitcher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moolvi (page history and authors); maulvi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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