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mutawalli

mutawalli noun: person entrusted with a waqf.

Noun

mutawalli (plural mutawallis)

  1. Person entrusted with a waqf.
    • ‘After becoming the mutawalli, does he do the namaz properly five times a day? Has he stopped going to the cinema? Fine, let all that be. Has he at least stopped drinking the devil’s piss? May his mutawalli position burn in hell.’2025, Banu Mushtaq, “Black Cobras”, in Deepa Bhasthi, transl., Heart Lamp, And Other Stories, page 45

Forms of mutawalli

pluralmutawallis
alternative formmutawallī

Origin of mutawalli

Derived from Arabic مُتَوَلِّي (mutawallī), from the informal pronunciation of مُتَوَلٍّ (mutawallin).

Questions about mutawalli

What does mutawalli mean?
Mutawalli means person entrusted with a waqf.
What part of speech is mutawalli?
Mutawalli is a noun.
What is the plural of mutawalli?
The plural of mutawalli is mutawallis.

Words near mutawalli in the dictionary

  1. mutatory
  2. mutatoxanthin
  3. mutawa
  4. Mutawali
  5. Mutawalis
  6. mutawalli
  7. mutawallis
  8. mutawatir
  9. mutaween
  10. Mutawintji
  11. mutawwa

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