فتوی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā, “a decision given by a mufti”).

Noun

فتوی • (fetva)

(Islam) fatwa

Descendants

Turkish: fetva
→ Albanian: fetva
→ Hungarian: fetva
→ Serbo-Croatian: fȅtva, фе̏тва

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فتوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1365

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