Maulana Definition

mou-länə
noun
A Muslim man respected for his religious knowledge or scholarship.
American Heritage
Used as a courtesy title for such a leader or scholar.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Maulana

Noun

Singular:
maulana
Plural:
maulanas

Origin of Maulana

  • Ultimately (partly via Persian) (Urdu mawlānā) from Arabic mawlānā mawlā master, friend mullah -nā our -n in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Maulana Sentence Examples

  • Ottoman literature may be said to open with a few mystic lines, the work of Sultan Veled, son of Maulana Jelal-ud-Din, the author of the great Persian poem the Mathnawi.

  • Among less reputed biographies or materials for biography may be mentioned a second Zafarnama, by Maulana Nizamu 'd-Din Shanab Ghazani (Nizam Shami), stated to be "the earliest known history of Timur, and the only one written in his lifetime"; and vol.

  • Dr. Maulana Karenga was responsible for introducing it as a way to mark the harvest coming in and as a way to offer an alternative to the commercialism that many people felt had taken over Christmas.

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Words Starting With

MMAMAU

Words Ending With

ANAANA

Unscrambles

maulana

Words Starting With M and Ending With A

Starts With M & Ends With AStarts With MA & Ends With AStarts With M & Ends With NA

Word Length

7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With M7 Letter Words Ending With A

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