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mutaween

/mʊˈtɑːwiːn/

mutaween is the plural of mutawa.

mutaween is the plural of mutawwa.

Meaning of mutawa

Noun

mutawa (plural mutaween)

  1. A member of the religious police in Saudi Arabia.
    • Meanwhile, another trial is already under way in the city of Tabuk, where the family of a man who died of an apparent heart attack in the commission’s custody is likewise demanding a death sentence for four mutaween allegedly involved in his detention. Ahmed al-Bulawi died after being hauled into a...2007 August 6, Scott Macleod, “Vice Squad”, in Time, CLXX, № 5, page 36
  2. The religious police as a body.

Origin of mutaween

Arabic مُطَّوِّعِين (muṭṭawwiʕīn, “volunteers”), مُطَّوِّعَة (muṭṭawwiʕa, “volunteers”)

Questions about mutaween

What is mutaween the plural of?
Mutaween is the plural of mutawa.
How do you pronounce mutaween?
Mutaween is pronounced /mʊˈtɑːwiːn/.

Words near mutaween in the dictionary

  1. Mutawali
  2. Mutawalis
  3. mutawalli
  4. mutawallis
  5. mutawatir
  6. mutaween
  7. Mutawintji
  8. mutawwa
  9. Mutawālī
  10. Mutawālīs
  11. Mutazilite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mutaween (page history and authors); mutawa (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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