Maulanaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

maulana (plural maulanas)

1. (Islam) A religious scholar, especially in Central and South Asia.
   • 1981, V. S. Naipaul, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, page 168:

     At the end of his long and cantankerous life the maulana had gone against all his high principles. He had gone to a Boston hospital to look for health; he had at the very end entrusted himself to the skill and science of the civilization he had tried to shield his followers from.

2. (India, Islam, Internet slang, religious slur) A Muslim person in general, especially an extreme conservative.

参考

• maulvi
• mullah
• mawla