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mullah

mul·lah

or mul′la

a Muslim teacher or interpreter of the religious law: a general title of respect for a learned man

Origin of mullah

Turk, Pers, and Hindi mulla from Arabic maul?, a master, sir

also mul·la

noun

Islam

Origin of mullah

Urdu mullā from Persian from Arabic mawlā master, friend from waliya to become near, be in charge wly

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Noun

(plural mullahs)

Origin

From Turkish molla, Persian , from Arabic مولى (mawla, “vicar, guardian”).

He was born about 17 9 7 and, educated by the Mullah Djemaleddin, soon took a leading part in preaching a holy war against the Russians.
MULLAH (Arabic maula, a term which originally expresses the legal bond connecting a former owner with his manumitted slave, both patron and client being called maula, and thus suggests the idea of patronage), in Mahommedan countries, a learned man, a teacher, a doctor of the law, In India the term is applied to the man who reads the Koran, and also to a Mussulman schoolmaster.
In the Indian frontier risings of 1897-98 the "mad mullah" of Swat led the attack upon the Malakand, while the Hadda mullah was largely responsible for the risings amongst the Mohmands, Afridis and Orakzais.
(26) In 1899 the rebellion of the so-called "mad" mullah (Hajji Mahommed Abdullah) began on the borders of British Somaliland.
An Abyssinian expedition was, _ at Great Britain's request, sent against the mullah, but without much effect.