Mufti

Quick meaning: Mufti is a noun meaning (countable, Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.

Meaning

(countable, Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, Australia, British, New Zealand) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military or the police, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.

Example Sentences

The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.

The innate reluctance of the Englishman to make himself conspicuous has stood him here in good stead. Except on special occasions, the British officers are almost always in mufti.

He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

The neutrality, however, causes some peculiar situations, such as that arising from the prohibition of uniforms other than those of the Eireann Defence Forces and the Diplomatic Corps. This would be simple if no one from Eire were a sailor, soldier, or airman in the British Forces, but thousands of them are, and as such they may not wear mufti unless on leave from the B.E.F.

Word Forms

• muftis
• muftee
• mufty

Synonyms for mufti

Depending on context, synonyms include civvies.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sheikh, civvies, mufty, muftee, muftiate, fatwa.

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