Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
mollah .
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- noun Archaic form of
mullah .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque
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Examples
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I absolutely love them both, would buy if I wasn't such a sensible person, and knew better then to spend that kind of mulla on dolls, but then, sense & sensibility will not last forever, and tax returns are on their way!
MTV Staffers Unbox The Magical Edward Cullen Doll » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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Professor Pinches thinks it not improbable that "mulla" may be connected with the word "mula", meaning
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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If the mad mulla can find reason to fly the Gay pride flag then why not yours or any other group, how can he defend a decision not to without appearing to discrimate, but where does it all stop.
If It Looks Crazy And It Sounds Crazy………….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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He had sat by her when the mulla came in for lessons, adjusting her veil, helping her with pronunciations; he had lain by her feet when she was unwell, grasping the heated skin of her shins and calves; he, not her mother, had held and pacified her at the sight of that first monthly blood, though he had not known what it was or why it had happened.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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"How easy to become a mulla," as the Persian proverb has it, "but how difficult to become human!"
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He had sat by her when the mulla came in for lessons, adjusting her veil, helping her with pronunciations; he had lain by her feet when she was unwell, grasping the heated skin of her shins and calves; he, not her mother, had held and pacified her at the sight of that first monthly blood, though he had not known what it was or why it had happened.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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"How easy to become a mulla," as the Persian proverb has it, "but how difficult to become human!"
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"How easy to become a mulla," as the Persian proverb has it, "but how difficult to become human!"
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He had sat by her when the mulla came in for lessons, adjusting her veil, helping her with pronunciations; he had lain by her feet when she was unwell, grasping the heated skin of her shins and calves; he, not her mother, had held and pacified her at the sight of that first monthly blood, though he had not known what it was or why it had happened.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Now ... if you are asking Flash to move away from just throwing the mulla about and a bit of thought go into how we go about it then I am afraid you have got as they say NO CHANCE
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