Definition of moulvi in English:
moulvi
(also molvi, maulvi)
nounPlural moulvisˈmuːlviˈmulvi
(especially in South Asia) a Muslim doctor of the law.
大毛拉(尤指印度次大陆的伊斯兰教法律专家)
Example sentencesExamples
- Their madrassa had a good maulvi who told her that the madrassa can bring up orphans but her mama would not let them go there because of what people would say.
- Some maulvis attached to madrasas have attempted to start dialogue efforts.
- Benazir Bhutto's leadership was challenged by a maulvi in Pakistan on the basis of this hadith.
- Beside me sat a pair of heavily bearded maulvis in indigo-blue jallaba shifts.
- Why were the maulvis held for two days and freed without any charges framed against them?
- My father's non-Muslim friends recount proudly incidents and anecdotes of maulvis and madrasas much in the same manner as we remember our school and teachers.
- The infomercial used terrific Urdu, mixed with a muezzin's call playing subtly in the background and actual maulvis in the foreground.
- He would have been beheaded along with the other prisoners, had it not been for the intercession of Tipu's mother and her maulvi.
- A maulvi here or a madrasa student there might have been arrested on some charges, but how can you blame the madrasa to which he belongs, or the madrasas as a whole, for that matter?
- Born in Mughalsarai, in a Kayasth family of modest means, he studied first with a maulvi.
- A moulvi, or knowledgeable one, is present at all ceremonies and formally asks the bride and groom whether they accept each other in matrimony.
- The planned mosque will be a proper one with minarets and with a woman moulvi who is well versed in the Quran and the tenets of Islam.
- Behind the mosque's central arch was a carved marble balcony, where in better days a maulvi had stood to address the assembled villagers.
Origin
From Urdu maulvī, from Arabic mawlawī 'judicial' (adjective used as a noun), from mawlā 'mullah'.