fatwa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”) (whence مُفْتٍ (muftin, “mufti”), the active participle of the same verb: see mufti).
The forms fetwa, fetwah are derived from Italian fetfà (obsolete), and directly from its etymon Ottoman Turkish فتوی (fetva) (modern Turkish fetva), from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā): see above.
Modern uses of noun sense 1.2 (“decree that a person should be put to death”) and the corresponding verb sense are probably influenced by the issuance of a fatwa on 14 February 1989 by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1900 or 1902 – 1989), the Supreme Leader of Iran, calling for the British-American author Salman Rushdie (born 1947) and his publishers to be put to death for alleged blasphemy in his novel The Satanic Verses (1988).
The plural form fatawa is borrowed from Arabic فَتَاوَى (fatāwā).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: fatwas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fatawa
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: fetwa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fetwah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fatwah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: futwa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: futwah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A formal legal decree, opinion, or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic judicial authority.
pos: noun
examples: The website contains fatwas on points of Islamic law that arise in court cases.
In 2015, one person was killed in Copenhagen at a meeting meant to mark the 25th anniversary of an Iranian fatwa against British writer Salman Rushdie, which Vilks attended.
gloss: A decree issued by a mufti or other Islamic judicial authority that a person should be put to death, usually as punishment for committing apostasy or blasphemy.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
proscribed
gloss: A formal decree or ruling, or statement, issued by an authority of a religion other than Islam.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: An emphatic decree or opinion, especially one which condemns or criticizes.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: fatwa
lang: Albanian
word: fetva
lang: Arabic
word: فَتْوَى
roman: fatwā
lang: Azerbaijani
word: fitva
lang: Bashkir
word: фәтүә
roman: fətwə
lang: Bengali
word: ফতোয়া
roman: photōẇa
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 法特瓦
roman: fǎtéwǎ
lang: Czech
word: fatva
lang: Danish
word: fatwa
lang: Dutch
word: fatwa
lang: Estonian
word: fatvaa
lang: Finnish
word: fatwa
lang: French
word: fatwa
lang: German
word: Fatwa
lang: Greek
word: φετφάς
roman: fetfás
lang: Greek
word: φετβάς
roman: fetvás
lang: Greek
word: φάτουα
roman: fátoua
lang: Hebrew
word: פַתְוָה
lang: Hebrew
word: פתווה
roman: fatvá
lang: Hindi
word: फ़तवा
roman: fatvā
lang: Hindi
word: फतवा
roman: phatvā
lang: Hungarian
word: fetva
lang: Indonesian
word: fatwa
lang: Italian
word: fatwa
lang: Japanese
word: ファトワー
roman: fatowā
lang: Kazakh
word: пәтуа
roman: pätua
lang: Korean
word: 파트와
roman: pateuwa
lang: Kumyk
word: патва
roman: patwa
lang: Central Kurdish
word: فەتوا
roman: fetwa
lang: Kyrgyz
word: фатва
roman: fatva
lang: Macedonian
word: фа́тва
roman: fátva
lang: Malay
word: fatwa
lang: Malay
word: petua
lang: Marathi
word: फतवा
roman: phatvā
lang: Pashto
word: فتوى
roman: fetwā
lang: Iranian Persian
word: فَتْوا
roman: fatvâ
lang: Polish
word: fatwa
lang: Portuguese
word: fátua
lang: Russian
word: фе́тва
roman: fétva
lang: Russian
word: фетва́
roman: fetvá
lang: Russian
word: фа́тва
roman: fátva
lang: Russian
word: фатва́
roman: fatvá
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: фе̏тва
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: фа̏тва
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: fȅtva
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: fȁtva
lang: Spanish
word: fetua
lang: Spanish
word: fatua
lang: Spanish
word: fatwa
lang: Swedish
word: fatwa
lang: Tajik
word: фатво
roman: fatvo
lang: Tatar
word: фәтва
roman: fätwa
lang: Turkish
word: fetva
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: فتوی
roman: fetva
lang: Urdu
word: فَتْویٰ
roman: fatvā
lang: Uyghur
word: پەتىۋا
roman: petiwa
lang: Uzbek
word: fatvo