# mufti
## English
### Alternative forms

* muftee (archaic)
* mufty (archaic)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmʌfti/, (only in sense 1) /ˈmʊfti/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌfti, (sense 1) -ʊfti

### Noun

mufti (countable and uncountable, plural muftis)
* (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: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.
* (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: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.

#### Derived terms

* mufti day

#### Translations
## Danish
### Etymology

Derived from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

### Noun

mufti c (singular definite muftien, plural indefinite muftier)
* mufti

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “mufti” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Finnish
### Etymology

Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmufti/, [ˈmuft̪i]
* Rhymes: -ufti
* Hyphenation: muf‧ti

### Noun

mufti
* mufti

#### Declension

Possessive forms of mufti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
muftini
muftini
accusative
nom.
muftini
muftini
gen.
muftini
genitive
muftini
muftieni
partitive
muftiani
muftejani
inessive
muftissani
mufteissani
elative
muftistani
mufteistani
illative
muftiini
mufteihini
adessive
muftillani
mufteillani
ablative
muftiltani
mufteiltani
allative
muftilleni
mufteilleni
essive
muftinani
mufteinani
translative
muftikseni
mufteikseni
abessive
muftittani
mufteittani
instructive
comitative
—mufteineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
muftisi
muftisi
accusative
nom.
muftisi
muftisi
gen.
muftisi
genitive
muftisi
muftiesi
partitive
muftiasi
muftejasi
inessive
muftissasi
mufteissasi
elative
muftistasi
mufteistasi
illative
muftiisi
mufteihisi
adessive
muftillasi
mufteillasi
ablative
muftiltasi
mufteiltasi
allative
muftillesi
mufteillesi
essive
muftinasi
mufteinasi
translative
muftiksesi
mufteiksesi
abessive
muftittasi
mufteittasi
instructive
comitative
—mufteinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
muftimme
muftimme
accusative
nom.
muftimme
muftimme
gen.
muftimme
genitive
muftimme
muftiemme
partitive
muftiamme
muftejamme
inessive
muftissamme
mufteissamme
elative
muftistamme
mufteistamme
illative
muftiimme
mufteihimme
adessive
muftillamme
mufteillamme
ablative
muftiltamme
mufteiltamme
allative
muftillemme
mufteillemme
essive
muftinamme
mufteinamme
translative
muftiksemme
mufteiksemme
abessive
muftittamme
mufteittamme
instructive
comitative
—mufteinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
muftinne
muftinne
accusative
nom.
muftinne
muftinne
gen.
muftinne
genitive
muftinne
muftienne
partitive
muftianne
muftejanne
inessive
muftissanne
mufteissanne
elative
muftistanne
mufteistanne
illative
muftiinne
mufteihinne
adessive
muftillanne
mufteillanne
ablative
muftiltanne
mufteiltanne
allative
muftillenne
mufteillenne
essive
muftinanne
mufteinanne
translative
muftiksenne
mufteiksenne
abessive
muftittanne
mufteittanne
instructive
comitative
—mufteinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
muftinsa
muftinsa
accusative
nom.
muftinsa
muftinsa
gen.
muftinsa
genitive
muftinsa
muftiensa
partitive
muftiaan muftiansa
muftejaan muftejansa
inessive
muftissaan muftissansa
mufteissaan mufteissansa
elative
muftistaan muftistansa
mufteistaan mufteistansa
illative
muftiinsa
mufteihinsa
adessive
muftillaan muftillansa
mufteillaan mufteillansa
ablative
muftiltaan muftiltansa
mufteiltaan mufteiltansa
allative
muftilleen muftillensa
mufteilleen mufteillensa
essive
muftinaan muftinansa
mufteinaan mufteinansa
translative
muftikseen muftiksensa
mufteikseen mufteiksensa
abessive
muftittaan muftittansa
mufteittaan mufteittansa
instructive
comitative
—mufteineen mufteinensa :

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muf.ti/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -i

### Noun

mufti m (plural muftis)
* (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)
** 1680, Molière, “Acte IV, Scene V”, in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme [The Middle-Class Aristocrat]‎, page 89:Le Mufti commande aux Turcs de baſtonner le Bourgeois, […]The mufti orders the Turks to batter the bourgeois, […]

#### Related terms

* fatwa

### Further reading

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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmufti]
* Hyphenation: muf‧ti
* Rhymes: -ti

### Noun

mufti (plural muftik)
* (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

#### Derived terms

* főmufti

#### Related terms

* fetva

## Italian
### Noun

mufti m (invariable)
* (rare) Alternative form of muftì

## Malay
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mufti/
* Rhymes: -ti, -i

### Noun

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

### Further reading

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

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmuf.ti/
* Rhymes: -ufti
* Syllabification: muf‧ti

### Noun

mufti m pers
* (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)
    Pierwszym muftim Polski był Jakub Szynkiewicz.The first mufti of Poland was Jakub Szynkiewicz.

#### Related terms

* fatwa

### Further reading

* mufti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /mufˈt͡ʃi/
* (Portugal) IPA: /muˈfti/

### Noun

mufti m (plural muftis)
* (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmufti]

### Noun

mufti m pers
* mufti (Muslim scholar)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “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, 2003–2025

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

mufti class V (plural mamufti class VI)
* mufti (Muslim scholar)

### Adjective

mufti (invariable)
* elegant, pleasing, stylish

## Swedish
### Etymology

Derived from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

### Noun

mufti c
* mufti

#### Derived terms

* stormufti

### Further reading

* mufti in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

## Tagalog
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

mufti (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜉ᜔ᜆᜒ)
* mufti (civilian dress)
* (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

#### See also

* fatwa

### Further reading

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

## Uzbek
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī).

### Noun

mufti (plural muftilar)
* (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)