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mufti en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmʌfti/
• (Australia) audio
• /ˈmʊfti/ only in sense 1

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.
   • 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. 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, uncountable) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military or the police, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.
   • 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. 1940 May, “The Irish Railways Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 295:
   • 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. 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 91:
   • The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser. 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 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. 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

Deriveds

mufti day · muftiate

Hypernyms

cleric

Synonyms

civvies

Translations (77)

pt traje à paisana (civilian dress) · de Mufti (Muslim scholar) · rhg muftí (Muslim scholar) · he מופתי (Muslim scholar) · ca muftí (Muslim scholar) · ur مُفْتی (Muslim scholar) · tk müfti (Muslim scholar) · prs مُفْتِی (Muslim scholar) · ru му́фтий (Muslim scholar) · ba мөфтөй (Muslim scholar) · ug مۇپتى (Muslim scholar) · ja 便衣隊 (civilian dress) · ja 私服 (civilian dress) · hu mufti (Muslim scholar) · de Zivil n Zivilkleidung (civilian dress) · ja ムフティー (Muslim scholar) · tt мөфти (Muslim scholar) · hy մուֆտի (Muslim scholar) · cmn 便服 (civilian dress) · tr müftü (Muslim scholar) · kmr miftî (Muslim scholar) · fr tenue civile (civilian dress) · ro muftiu (Muslim scholar) · cmn 穆夫提 (Muslim scholar) · cmn 常服 (civilian dress) · sq myfti (Muslim scholar) · cy myffti (Muslim scholar) · nl burgertenue (civilian dress) · be му́фтый (Muslim scholar) · sh mùftija (Muslim scholar) · az müfti (Muslim scholar) · tg муфтӣ (Muslim scholar) · ru шта́тское (civilian dress) · hi मुफ़्ती (Muslim scholar) · ky муфтий (Muslim scholar) · kk мүфти (Muslim scholar) · ota مفتی (Muslim scholar) · el πολιτικά (civilian dress) · zdj mufti (Muslim scholar) · io mufti (Muslim scholar) · cmn 便裝 /便装 (civilian dress) · crh müfti (Muslim scholar) · ms mufti (Muslim scholar) · sw mufti (Muslim scholar) · el μουφτής (Muslim scholar) · pa ਮੁਫ਼ਤੀ (Muslim scholar) · id mufti (Muslim scholar) · pt mufti (Muslim scholar) · vo lemuftid (Muslim scholar) · sv mufti (Muslim scholar) · vo muftid (Muslim scholar) · bg мюфти́я (Muslim scholar) · ru гражда́нское (civilian dress) · uk му́фтій (Muslim scholar) · ps مفتي (Muslim scholar) · fi mufti (Muslim scholar) · mk му́фтија (Muslim scholar) · da mufti (Muslim scholar) · it abito civile (civilian dress) · ko 무프티 (Muslim scholar) · uz mufti (Muslim scholar) · ar مُفْتٍ (Muslim scholar) · ar مُفْتِي (Muslim scholar) · el πολιτικά ρούχα (civilian dress) · cmn 宗教司 (Muslim scholar) · ru шта́тское пла́тье (civilian dress) · it muftì (Muslim scholar) · hi मुफ्ती (Muslim scholar) · bg циви́лно облекло́ (civilian dress) · de Großmufti (Muslim scholar) · bn মুফতি (Muslim scholar) · nl moefti (Muslim scholar) · he מֻפְתִּי (Muslim scholar) · fr mufti (Muslim scholar) · sh му̀фтија (Muslim scholar) · fa-ira مُفْتی (Muslim scholar) · ja 平服 (civilian dress)