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Mollah   Listen
noun
Mollah  n.  
1.
One of the higher order of Turkish; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man. (Written also mullah and moolah)
2.
A title of respect used in Islamic countries for one who is learned in Islamic law; a teacher or expounder of Islamic law.





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"Mollah" Quotes from Famous Books



... a "molla" or "mollah" a superior judge, of the sacred Moslem law. The "tefterdars" or "defterdars" were provincial registrars and treasurers under the supreme defterdar, or Chancellor ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron


Words linked to "Mollah" :   Muslim, ulema, Mulla


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