Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the higher order of Turkish; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man.
- noun A title of respect used in Islamic countries for one who is learned in Islamic law; a teacher or expounder of Islamic law.
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- noun Archaic form of
mullah .
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- 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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Three men played tambourines or tom-toms of skin called _teheranes_, and to this music they chanted passages out of the Koran, led by the 'mollah'; this formed
Southern Arabia Mabel Bent
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It was playing "Iftada-e-ishq me hum sari raat jaghe, allah jaane kya hoga aage, oh mollah jaane kya hoga aage .." from the old Hindi movie Haryali Aur Rasta.
Archive 2009-01-01 Anjali 2009
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A former foreign minister of Iran, Velayati is the one non-mollah in Khamenei's innermost cadre.
Supreme Leader's Inner Circle Holds Key To Iran's Nuclear Standoff Jamsheed K. Choksy 2011
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It was playing "Iftada-e-ishq me hum sari raat jaghe, allah jaane kya hoga aage, oh mollah jaane kya hoga aage .." from the old Hindi movie Haryali Aur Rasta.
Haryali Aur Malai Kofta Anjali 2009
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MN conflated homosexuality and pedophilia, and attacked clerical teachers and leaders for molesting young boys, played upon feelings of contempt for passive homosexuals, suggested that elite men who kept amrad concubines had a vested interested in maintaining the male homosocial public spaces where semi-covert pederasty was tolerated, and mocked the rites of exchanging brotherhood vows before a mollah and compared it to a wedding ceremony.
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MN conflated homosexuality and pedophilia, and attacked clerical teachers and leaders for molesting young boys, played upon feelings of contempt for passive homosexuals, suggested that elite men who kept amrad concubines had a vested interested in maintaining the male homosocial public spaces where semi-covert pederasty was tolerated, and mocked the rites of exchanging brotherhood vows before a mollah and compared it to a wedding ceremony.
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Many prebends and bishoprics were preserved for them; and even at this day the Turkish sultan makes canons and bishops, without the pope having ever made an imam or a mollah.
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And you who bear authority over these benighted people, whether under the name of pasha, effendi, or mollah, let me advise you, although an unpromising subject for advice, not to act the stupid as well as barbarous part of riveting your nations in chains.
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He has been accustomed to pronounce, with his mollah, certain words which he takes for ideas.
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But the mollah calls to prayers from the minaret of a humble mosque; and in a dark corner illumined by aslant rays from a small high window in a wall, teaches to some half a dozen urchins the strange Arabic letters and the chants of the Koran.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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