Mullah

Definition: Mullah

Mullah

Noun

1. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque.

Date "Mullah" was first used: 1613. (references)

Synonyms: Mullah

Synonyms: Mollah (n), Mulla (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Mullah

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Mullah are Islamic clergy who have studied the Qur'an and the Hadith and are considered expert on these religous matters.

Mullah are seen to be able to give direction and make judgments based on their religious studies.

'Mullah' derives from Urdu mulla through Persian, originally from Arabic mawla, meaning 'master, friend'. The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica pointed out that Arabic maula was a term which originally expressed the legal bond connecting a former owner with his manumitted slave, both patron and client being called maula.

Under Islam a mullah is a learned man, a teacher, a doctor of the law of Sharia. In India the term is applied to the man who reads the Qur'an, and also to a Muslim schoolmaster. The Encyclopedia Britannica noted prophetically in 1911

"In countries like Afghanistan the mullahs exert an influence over the populace which sometimes rivals that of the amir himself, and they have been responsible for many disturbances in Kabul."

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mullah."

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Synonyms within Context: Mullah

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Clergy	Mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum, imam, sheik; sufi; kahin, kassis; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir; brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi; druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer.
Scholar	Noun: scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue; Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mullah

Non-English Usage: "Mullah" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (mullah), Hungarian (moolah, mullah).

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Modern Usage: Mullah

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Mullah Nasr al-Din (1953)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mullah

Domain	Title
Books	Afghanistan : Mullah, Marx and Mujahid (Nations of the Modern World. Middle East) (reference) History of Shah Abbas/Tarikh Abasi Ya Nemeh-Ye Mullah Jalal (reference) Ogilvie and the Mullah (reference) The Good Mullah (reference) The Mad Mullah of Somaliland (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mullah

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Afghanistan	On February 26, Mullah Omar had ordered the destruction of all statues in the country. (references)
	Afghanistan	After the incident, Mullah Omar issued an edict stating that any person causing annoyance to a foreign worker could face punishment of up to 5 years in prison. (references)
Economic History	Afghanistan	Its supreme head is Mullah Omar. (references)
Human Rights	Afghanistan	According to press reports, in 1999 Mullah Omar promulgated a decree ordering the Supreme Court and military courts not to interfere with one another. (references)
	Pakistan	In March 2000, two persons from Mullah Said village were arrested under the FCR following a shooting incident in which some persons from the village fired on residents of neighboring Badan village. (references)
Political Economy	Afghanistan	In 1997 the Taliban issued an edict renaming the country the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and named its leader, Mullah Omar, Head of State and Commander of the Faithful, granting him ultimate authority. (references)
Political Rights	Afghanistan	The Taliban movement's authority had emanated from its leader, Mullah Omar, who carried the title Commander of the Faithful, and from the Taliban's military occupation of most of the country. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Mullah

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Senator Daschle has proclaimed that the definition of victory in this war to be the end of life for Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden, and until that happens, we will not have victory.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mullah

"Mullah" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.57% of the time. "Mullah" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	68.57%	24	71,196
Noun (proper)	28.57%	10	111,207
Interjection	2.86%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	35	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mullah

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
mullah omar	30
mullah taliban	17
mullah	15
hello mullah	6
mullah mohammed omar	6
highness his mullah	4
mad mullah	2
abdullah fayaz mullah	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mullah

Language		Translations for "Mullah"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mulla (moolah). (various references)

Bulgarian		молла. (various references)

German		mullah. (various references)

Greek		νομοπαθήσ (jurist), μουλάσ. (various references)

Hungarian		mullah (moolah), molla. (various references)

Indonesian		dai (proselytizer, revival mullah). (various references)

Pig Latin		ullahmay

Romanian		hoge (moolah). (various references)

Russian		мулла (moolah). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mula (mule), vrhovni kadija. (various references)

Thai		ผู้สอนศาสนาอิสลาม. (various references)

Turkish		molla. (various references)

Turkmen		molla. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mullah

Language	Period	Translations
Arabic	500-Modern	mawla. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mullah

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Mullah": mullahism, mullahisms, mullahs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mullah" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amrullah, Hullah, Malhal, Mallah, maslah, melalap, Melih, Melpash, Milbah, Moulham, Mouslah, mula, mulah, mulat, mulga, Mulkay, Mullagh, Mulley, Mullhil, Mullu, mulsh, Mulvagh, Muslab, Mutlah, nulla, Nullah, Nullum, Tullah, Umalah. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mullah"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Mullah" (pronounced mu"lu)
3	-u" l u	medulla.
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Anagrams: Mullah

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-l-l-m-u"
	-1 letter: ahull, haulm, mulla.
	-2 letters: alum, hall, halm, haul, hula, hull, mall, maul, mull.
	-3 letters: all, amu, ham, hum, lam, lum.
	-4 letters: ah, al, am, ha, hm, la, ma, mu, uh, um.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-l-l-m-u"
	+1 letter: mullahs.
	+2 letters: thallium.
	+3 letters: harmfully, mullahism, thalliums.
	+4 letters: callithump, haustellum, mullahisms, multiflash, qualmishly, shamefully, smallmouth.
	+5 letters: azimuthally, callithumps, prothallium, smallmouths.
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