maulvi

English

Etymology

From Urdu مولوی‎ (maulvi), and its source, Persian مولوی‎ (mowlavi), noun use of Arabic مَوْلَوِيّ‎ (mawlawiyy, “of a lord or master”), ultimately from مَوْلًى‎ (mawlan, “master”). Compare mullah, maulana.

Noun

maulvi (plural maulvis)

  1. An imam; a Muslim doctor of law.
  2. (loosely, chiefly South Asia) Any man of learning; a scholar, a teacher of Classical languages.
    • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 10:
      He had a maulvi and a pandit to teach him Urdu and Hindi.

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