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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa. · A 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.
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).
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