Definitions for Mufti

Mufti muf·ti

Spelling: [muhf-tee]
IPA: /ˈmʌf ti/

Mufti is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Mufti (fimtu).

Definitions for Mufti

noun

  1. civilian clothes, in contrast with military or other uniforms, or as worn by a person who usually wears a uniform.
  2. a Muslim jurist expert in the religious law.
  3. (in the Ottoman Empire) a deputy of the chief Muslim legal adviser to the Sultan.
  4. (initial capital letter) Grand Mufti.

Origin of Mufti

First recorded in 1580-90, mufti is from the Arabic word muftī literally, a person who delivers a judgment, originally a Muslim legal adviser; sense of def. 1 arises from the legal adviser be

Examples for Mufti

But in vain the mufti, and the Patriarch, and the Pope flout at your past traditions.

People passed in and out, but nobody spoke to the sailor in mufti.

I imagine your excellency has obtained a dispensation from the mufti?

It was easy to see that he was much more at home in mufti than in uniform.

He'd expected his tone of authority to be enough, even though he was in mufti.

You mean the difference between a man in uniform and in mufti?

He was in mufti, whoever he was, and received us kindly enough.

What he calls a “papery palace of stories” sustains identity and ties mufti to place.

mufti later describes the violence devastating his country as “a clash of civilizations inside Pakistan.”

This time, however, appeared a mufti who was unfriendly to coffee.

Word Value for Mufti
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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