/ˈmʌfti/, /ˈmʊfti/
OriginBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).
- countableA 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 Januar”
- Australia, British, New-Zealand, uncountableA 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.
“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”
“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.”
“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 s”
- abbreviation, acronym, alt-ofAcronym of Minimum Use of Force and Tactical Intervention.
Formsmuftis(plural) · muftee(alternative, archaic) · mufty(alternative, archaic)