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Meanings of mollah in anglès

portuguès
mulá

A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque.

mulá
Usage of mollah in anglès
1
The mollah produced a small golden box, from which he took a silver case.
Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East
2
But you, you who killed my husband, how came you to be a mollah?'
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
3
The infidel means that he was a mollah or dervish among the followers of Isauri.
The Pacha of Many Tales
4
The mollah was in too pitiable a condition for me to continue upbraiding him any longer.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
5
Provided I gain but my six dirhems a day, I have no objection to become a mollah.
The Pacha of Many Tales
6
I had passed ten long and tedious days in my hiding-place without the smallest tidings from the mollah Nadân.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
7
I am an attendant upon the chief executioner, with whom the mollah bashi, I believe, has some money transactions.'
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
8
The party who stood before the king consisted of the mollah bashi, the chief executioner, the Armenian, Nadân, and myself.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
9
Then the mollah bashi exclaimed, 'And who am I, that you should presume to take the lead against the infidels?'
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
10
A mollah was clambering into a high scaffold built of poles, whence shortly he began to intone a long-drawn-out Allah!
African Camp Fires
11
I was equipped ready for my journey, and I flattered myself that my outward appearance was that of a rigid mollah.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
12
Following him is a procession of from fifty to one hundred men, mostly mollah, or lower class, who are faithful Moslems.
Modern Persia
13
This produced a universal tremor in the mollah, and I must own that it communicated itself to me in no agreeable manner.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
14
I entered Tehran in the evening, and, making myself as little recognizable as possible, I slunk through the streets to the mollah's house.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
15
Everybody knew how ill-disposed against him was my master, the mollah Nadân, and I shall be called the vile instrument of his enmity.'
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
16
The mollah entered the houses of the principal Armenians, followed by the most violent of the mob, and began an active search for wine.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
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Translations for mollah
portuguès
mulá
Mollah through the time