mufti
/ˈmʌfti/
mufti noun: a Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.
Noun
mufti (countable and uncountable, plural muftis)
- 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...2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
- 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.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 91
- 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.1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic
- Synonyms:
- civvies
Proper noun capitalized: MUFTI
MUFTI
- Acronym of Minimum Use of Force and Tactical Intervention.
mufti meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Punjabi
mufti in Hindi
- Muslim scholar
- मुफ़्ती muftī, मुफ्ती muphtī
mufti in Urdu
- Muslim scholar
- مُفْتی muftī
mufti in Bengali
- Muslim scholar
- মুফতি muphti
mufti in Punjabi
- Muslim scholar
- ਮੁਫ਼ਤੀ muftī
More languagesFewer languages
- mufti in Pashto
- مفتي moftí
- mufti in Arabic
- مُفْتٍ muftin, مُفْتِي muftī
- mufti in Malay
- mufti
- mufti in Indonesian
- mufti
Examples of mufti in a sentence
- 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.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
- 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.1940 May, “The Irish Railways Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 295:
- The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.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...
Synonyms of mufti
Forms of mufti
| plural | muftis |
|---|---|
| alternative form | muftee |
| alternative form | mufty |
Origin of mufti
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).
Words formed from mufti
Phrases with mufti
Words that rhyme with mufti
Questions about mufti
- What does mufti mean?
- Mufti means a Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.
- What is mufti in Hindi?
- Mufti in Hindi is मुफ़्ती (muftī), मुफ्ती (muphtī). See Mufti meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use mufti in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is mufti?
- Mufti can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mufti?
- Mufti is pronounced /ˈmʌfti/.
- What is the plural of mufti?
- The plural of mufti is muftis.
Words near mufti in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mufti (page history and authors); MUFTI (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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