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 spelling of mula
   • 1793, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson:

     One of our party lifted with ease two of them from the ground, in spite of their efforts to prevent him, whereas in return, no one of them could move him. They called him ‘murree mulla’ (a large strong man).

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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
• Syllabification^(key): mul‧la
• 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