Ulama is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 42 anagrams from letters in ulama (aalmu).
First recorded in 1680-90, ʿulama is from the Arabic word ʿulamā learned men
The following extract is of some interest, as it states why the 'ulama consider the K'aba so sacred a place.
Then ulama glanced shyly at Templemore and clapped her hands.
No doubt Abul Fazl did his best to make the ulama uncomfortable.
Within four years they had broken up the power of the ulama.
He had been so more or less ever since that conversation with Monella about ulama.
“Then say nothing, dear friend,” ulama interposed, with a merry laugh.
"It was given me by ulama, the beautiful daughter of Mellenda," answered the old woman, proudly.
Meantime, ulama, as she had called herself, had been addressing the soldiers.
“A great-great-great-grandson of the great Mellenda,” put in ulama.
The ulama had persecuted his father and driven him into exile.
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