maulana

Ultimately from Arabic مَوْلَانَا‎ (mawlānā).

maulana (plural maulanas)

1. (Islam) A religious scholar, especially in Central and South Asia.
   • 1981, V. S. Naipaul, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (page 168)

     At the end of his long and cantankerous life the maulana had gone against all his high principles. He had gone to a Boston hospital to look for health; he had at the very end entrusted himself to the skill and science of the civilization he had tried to shield his followers from.

• maulvi
• mawla

From Arabic مَوْلَانَا‎ (mawlānā, “our lord”).

maulana

1. (Islam) A title, equivalent to "lord", most often used to refer to God