Name commonly given to local Islamic clerics or mosque leaders.
Синонимы
Examples for "sheikh "
Examples for "sheikh "
1 Emptiness. The sheikh 's wife-on-the-run has now been asked to help free Latifa.
2 Providing, of course, she could persuade the sheikh to let her go.
3 Whoever the sheikh might be, he kept good order in his domain.
4 Representatives of the sheikh did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
5 The sheikh , though, does not believe he can rely on Iran altogether.
1 The mollah produced a small golden box, from which he took a silver case.
2 But you, you who killed my husband, how came you to be a mollah ? '
3 The infidel means that he was a mollah or dervish among the followers of Isauri.
4 The mollah was in too pitiable a condition for me to continue upbraiding him any longer.
5 Provided I gain but my six dirhems a day, I have no objection to become a mollah .
1 They called him 'murree mulla ' (a large strong man).
2 There were no longer any protests from priests or mullahs or relatives.
3 He wanted Americans to ignore his foreign-policy realignment with despots and mullahs .
4 Women complain that the mullahs have them helpless in the refugee camps.
5 The government or the military or the mullahs control the press.
1 But death stepped in, and the Akhoond passed into history.
2 When not busy in the wars, the Akhoond was always to be found at Saidu.
3 The Akhoond was not, however, its civil ruler.
4 The title Akhoond merely means "teacher," and he was, primarily, a religious teacher and nothing more.
5 No wonder, then, that the Akhoond was a power in the land, and that Ameer after Ameer sought his assistance.
1 The mullah was new and very young, he told himself with disgust.
2 Shah Mirza went off joyfully, evidently having implicit faith in the mullah .
3 The mullah stood with his back to it and beckoned King nearer.
4 The mullah glared at him but let him by without a word.
5 The mullah did not look round, for he knew what was happening.
6 The mullah , he said, urged him to help wage jihad against the heathens.
7 She must believe him in league with the mullah against her.
8 Fortunately, it's not all about making moves and mullah right now.
9 Bid your women make for the Khyber soon after the mullah marches tomorrow.
10 We will rush him and put good running between us and the mullah .
11 The mullah shouts at her, although he does not quote from the Qur'an.
12 The crowd began to be noisy again, but the mullah signed for silence.
13 He recognized the almost madness that constituted the mullah 's driving power.
14 Even mullah Muhammad Anim seemed transfixed, like a great foolish animal.
15 Then the mullah 's eyes fell on King and he beckoned him.
16 I found a mullah - that 's a Muhammedan priest-who'ddo anything for half of nothing.
Другие примеры для термина "mullah"
Grammar, pronunciation and more