mullah

See also: Mullah

English

From Turkish molla, Persian ‎ (mollâ), from Arabic مَوْلًى‎ (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”).

mullah (plural mullahs)

a Muslim religious scholar and teacher

Albanian: mulla (sq) m
Arabic: مُلَّا‎ m (mullā), مَوْلًى‎ m (mawlan)
Azerbaijani: molla (az)
Bashkir: мулла (mulla)
Belarusian: мула́ m (mulá)
Bengali: মোল্লা (molla)
Bulgarian: молла́ m (mollá)
Chechen: молла (molla)
Chinese:
Dungan: мола (mola), ахун (ahun)

Mandarin: 毛拉 (zh) (máolā), 穆拉 (mùlā), 阿訇 (zh) (āhōng)
Finnish: mullah (fi)
French: mollah (fr) m
German: Mullah (de) m, Mulla (de) m, Molla m
Greek: μουλάς (el) m (moulás)
Hebrew: מולא‎ m (mula)
Hindi: मुल्ला (hi) m (mullā)
Indonesian: mullah (id)
Japanese: ムッラー (murra)
Kazakh: молда (molda)
Korean: 물라 (mulla)
Kumyk: молла
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: mela (ku)

Sorani: مه‌لا‎ (ku) (mela)

mullah (third-person singular simple present mullahs, present participle mullahing, simple past and past participle mullahed)

(transitive, Britain, slang) Alternative form of muller (“to beat, thrash”)
- 2009, Nigel Benn, The Dark Destroyer
  But I mullahed him. He may have been four inches taller but I punched him through the ropes and knocked the granny and the grandad out of him.
- 2016, Ben Cohen, Carry Me Home: My Autobiography (page 76)
  The Sevens practice session was touch rugby, but every time Harvey got the ball, I absolutely mullahed him. I pushed him, dumped him on his arse, ran through him. Every time.

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