mufti

• muftee (archaic)
• mufty (archaic)

Ultimately from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌfti/, (only in sense 1) /ˈmʊfti/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ʌfti, (sense 1) -ʊfti

mufti (countable and uncountable, plural muftis)

1. (countable, Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.

   Hypernym: cleric

   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (uncountable, Australia, British, New Zealand) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.

   Synonym: civvies

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 91:

     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.

   • 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 1940 May, “The Irish Railways Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 295:

     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.

   • 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 sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.

• mufti day

Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmufti/, [ˈmuft̪i]
• Rhymes: -ufti
• Hyphenation^(key): muf‧ti

mufti

1. mufti

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

• IPA^(key): /muf.ti/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -i

mufti m (plural muftis)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)
   • 1680, Molière, “Acte IV, Scene V”, in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme [The Middle-Class Aristocrat]‎^[3], page 89:

     Le Mufti commande aux Turcs de baſtonner le Bourgeois, […]

     The mufti orders the Turks to batter the bourgeois, […]

• fatwa

• “mufti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müftî), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī), from مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmufti]
• Hyphenation: muf‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

mufti (plural muftik)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	mufti	muftik
accusative	muftit	muftikat
dative	muftinak	muftiknak
instrumental	muftival	muftikkal
causal-final	muftiért	muftikért
translative	muftivá	muftikká
terminative	muftiig	muftikig
essive-formal	muftiként	muftikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	muftiban	muftikban
superessive	muftin	muftikon
adessive	muftinál	muftiknál
illative	muftiba	muftikba
sublative	muftira	muftikra
allative	muftihoz	muftikhoz
elative	muftiból	muftikból
delative	muftiról	muftikról
ablative	muftitól	muftiktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	muftié	muftiké
non-attributive possessive - plural	muftiéi	muftikéi

Possessive forms of mufti
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	muftim	muftijaim (or muftiim)
2nd person sing.	muftid	muftijaid (or muftiid)
3rd person sing.	muftija	muftijai (or muftii)
1st person plural	muftink	muftijaink (or muftiink)
2nd person plural	muftitok	muftijaitok (or muftiitok)
3rd person plural	muftijuk	muftijaik (or muftiik)

• főmufti

• fetva

mufti m (invariable)

1. (rare) Alternative form of muftì

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

• IPA^(key): /mufti/
• Rhymes: -ti, -i

mufti (Jawi spelling مفتي, plural mufti-mufti, informal 1st possessive muftiku, 2nd possessive muftimu, 3rd possessive muftinya)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

• “mufti” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuf.ti/
• Rhymes: -ufti
• Syllabification: muf‧ti

mufti m pers

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

   Pierwszym muftim Polski był Jakub Szynkiewicz.

   The first mufti of Poland was Jakub Szynkiewicz.

• mufti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

mufti m (plural muftis)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmufti]

mufti m pers

1. mufti (Muslim scholar)

• “mufti”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

• Audio (Kenya):

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mufti (ma class, plural mamufti)

1. mufti (Muslim scholar)

mufti (invariable)

1. elegant, pleasing, stylish

Derived from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

mufti c

1. mufti

• stormufti

• mufti in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmufti/ [ˈmuf.t̪ɪ]
  • IPA^(key): (more native-sounding) /ˈmupti/ [ˈmup.t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ufti, (more native-sounding) -upti
• Syllabification: muf‧ti

mufti (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜉ᜔ᜆᜒ)

1. mufti (civilian dress)
2. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

• “mufti”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Other scripts
Yangi Imlo
Cyrillic	муфти‍
Latin	mufti‍
Perso-Arabic (Afghanistan)

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

mufti (plural muftilar)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)