maulana
See also: Maulana
English
Etymology
Ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic مَوْلَانَا (mawlānā).
Noun
maulana (plural maulanas)
- (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.
- 1981, V. S. Naipaul, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (page 168)
See also
Swahili
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Arabic مَوْلَانَا (mawlānā, “our lord”).
Proper noun
maulana