Definition of Maulvi

1. a teacher of Islamic law [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maulvi

maulanas
maule
maule's quince
mauled
mauler
maulers
maulgre
maulgred
maulgres
maulgring
mauling
maulings
mauls
maulstick
maulsticks
maulvi (current term)
maulvis
maum
mauma
maumas
maumet
maumetries
maumetry
maumets
maumish
maun
maunch
maunched
maunches
maunching

Literary usage of Maulvi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene (1881)
"... poetical name of maulvi Mustafa 'Ali ras, which see. poetical title of 'Amar Singh of Bena- ... maulvi ..."

2. The Conversion of India: From Pantaenus to the Present Time, A.D. 193-1893 by George Smith (1893)
"maulvi Imad-ud-din, DD, a lineal descendant of the famous Mohammedan saint Qutub Jamal, who again is a descendant of the ancient royal house of Persia, ..."

3. An Examination of the Claims of Ishmael as Viewed by the Muhammedans by J D Bate (1884)
"As the maulvi is evidently possessed of the conviction that it is impossible for ... The maulvi cannot shelter himself behind the plea that Gibbon says that ..."

4. George Maxwell Gordon; the Pilgrim Missionary of the Punjab: A History of by Arthur Lewis (1890)
"In the following summer we find Gordon still giving this maulvi instruction. In the heat of July he writes :—" I ride over now and then to ..."

5. The Life and Letters of George Alfred Lefroy D. D., Bishop of Calcutta, and by George Alfred Lefroy (1920)
"to allow, but, as the blind maulvi had so bitterly opposed the teaching of the ... Hardly, however, had the blind maulvi begun to speak than murmurs of ..."

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