mulla

mulla (plural mullas)

1. Archaic form of mullah.
   • 1855, Henry George Raverty, A grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto, or language of the Afgháns, page v:

     A certain Afridi being desirous to learn to read, went into a village to a Mulla and said to him, that it would be a great favour if he would give him lessons.

• Mallu, Maull

mulla

1. inflection of mullar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

mulla

1. Obsolete form of mula.

mulla

1. woman (adult female)

• R. H. Mathews (1909) “The Dhudhuroa Language of Victoria”, in American Anthropologist (in Dhudhuroa)

mulla

1. genitive singular of muld

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulːɑ/, [ˈmulːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ulːɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): mul‧la

From English mullah, from Turkish molla, Persian ملا (mollâ), from Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”).

mulla

1. mullah

• mullah

mulla

1. (colloquial) adessive singular of minä

• minulla

mulla

1. niece

• kuncha

mulla

1. inflection of mullir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Derived from Classical Persian ملا (mullā), from Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”).

mulla c

1. (Islam) mullah

• mulla in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker