mullah• Both brothers followed the family tradition and became mullahs.• His luxuriantbeard was red: he was Banda's mullah.• Little wonder people turned to their traditionalleaders, the mullahs, said Parsons.• My brother Matullah is all right, and so is Alishan Karim, the brother of the mullah.• It was inevitable that Khomeini would loathe the attacks that Reza Shah made on the power of the mullahs.• Thus the mullahs can legitimately inciterevolution, and since the seventhcentury they have done so.
Originmullah
(1600-1700)Turkishmolla and Persian and Hindimulla, from Arabicmawla