Term: ulema: the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community
Candidate hypernym: body: a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity → 1
Candidate hypernym: inchoative: aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb → 0
Candidate hypernym: chain tongs: a pipe wrench used for turning large pipes; an adjustable chain circles the pipe with its ends connected to the head whose teeth engage the pipe → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydra: trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality → 0
Candidate hypernym: sino-tibetan: the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia → 0
Candidate hypernym: meltwater: melted snow or ice → 0
Candidate hypernym: ojibwa: the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa → 0
Candidate hypernym: matador: the principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull → 0
Candidate hypernym: law of thermodynamics: (physics) a law governing the relations between states of energy in a closed system → 0
Candidate hypernym: circumvention: the act of evading by going around → 0
Candidate hypernym: deck: any of various platforms built into a vessel → 0