mufti

• muftee (archaic)
• mufty (archaic)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌfti/, (only in sense 1) /ˈmʊfti/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ʌfti, (sense 1) -ʊfti

mufti (countable and uncountable, plural muftis)

1. (countable, Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.

   Hypernym: cleric

   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Mujtahidd's online claims have prompted an aggressive backlash against social media from the Saudi religious establishment. The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh, said in January that Twitter was a platform for "promoting lies" and a "dangerous practice" that should be avoided by Muslims. Commentators have described the phenomenon as symbolic of the growing political debate about use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia.

2. (uncountable, Australia, British, New Zealand) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.

   Synonym: civvies

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 91:

     He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

   • 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     The innate reluctance of the Englishman to make himself conspicuous has stood him here in good stead. Except on special occasions, the British officers are almost always in mufti.

   • 1940 May, “The Irish Railways Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 295:

     The neutrality, however, causes some peculiar situations, such as that arising from the prohibition of uniforms other than those of the Eireann Defence Forces and the Diplomatic Corps. This would be simple if no one from Eire were a sailor, soldier, or airman in the British Forces, but thousands of them are, and as such they may not wear mufti unless on leave from the B.E.F.

   • 2002 April 3, Dave Wilma, “First nuclear submarine U.S.S. Nautilus visits Seattle and crew secretly buys Bar's Leak on June 3, 1958”, in HistoryLink.org: Essay 3739:

     The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.

• mufti day

Derived from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

mufti c (singular definite muftien, plural indefinite muftier)

1. mufti

• “mufti” in Den Danske Ordbog

Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmufti/, [ˈmuft̪i]
• Rhymes: -ufti
• Syllabification^(key): muf‧ti
• Hyphenation^(key): muf‧ti

mufti

1. mufti

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

• IPA^(key): /muf.ti/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -i

mufti m (plural muftis)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)
   • 1680, Molière, “Acte IV, Scene V”, in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme [The Middle-Class Aristocrat]‎^[3], page 89:

     Le Mufti commande aux Turcs de baſtonner le Bourgeois, […]

     The mufti orders the Turks to batter the bourgeois, […]

• fatwa

• “mufti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müftî), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī), from مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmufti]
• Hyphenation: muf‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

mufti (plural muftik)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

• főmufti

• fetva

mufti m (invariable)

1. (rare) alternative form of muftì

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

• IPA^(key): /mufti/
• Rhymes: -ti, -i

mufti (Jawi spelling مفتي, plural mufti-mufti)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

• “mufti” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuf.ti/
• Rhymes: -ufti
• Syllabification: muf‧ti

mufti m pers

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

   Pierwszym muftim Polski był Jakub Szynkiewicz.

   The first mufti of Poland was Jakub Szynkiewicz.

• mufti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

mufti m (plural muftis)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmufti]

mufti m pers

1. mufti (Muslim scholar)

• “mufti”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

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mufti class V (plural mamufti class VI)

1. mufti (Muslim scholar)

mufti (invariable)

1. elegant, pleasing, stylish

Derived from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

mufti c

1. mufti

• stormufti

• mufti in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmufti/ [ˈmuf.t̪ɪ]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /ˈmupti/ [ˈmup.t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ufti, (with nativization) -upti
• Syllabification: muf‧ti

mufti (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜉ᜔ᜆᜒ)

1. mufti (civilian dress)
2. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

• “mufti”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

mufti (plural muftilar)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)