The Taliban's Afghanistan will be the Sunni version of the Iranian mullah regime without oil.
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Mullah
//ˈmʊ.lə//
Synonyms for "mullah" (26 found)
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Translations
67 translations across 51 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- mulla noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Amharic
1 entries- ሙላህ noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Arabic
2 entries- مَوْلًى noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- مُلَّا noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Armenian
1 entries- մոլլա noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- molla noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Bashkir
1 entries- мулла noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Belarusian
1 entries- мула́ noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Bengali
2 entries- আখন্দ noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- মোল্লা noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Bulgarian
1 entries- молла́ noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- مەلا noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Chechen
1 entries- молла noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Chinese
2 entries- ахун noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- мола noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 毛拉 noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- 穆拉 noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- 阿訇 noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Danish
1 entries- mullah noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Dari
2 entries- آخُونْد noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- مُلَّا noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Finnish
1 entries- mullah noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
French
1 entries- mollah noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Georgian
1 entries- მოლა noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
German
3 entries- Molla noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- Mulla noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- Mullah noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Greek
1 entries- μουλάς noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Hebrew
1 entries- מולא noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Hindi
1 entries- मुल्ला noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Indonesian
1 entries- mullah noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- آخونْد noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- مُلَّا noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Japanese
1 entries- ムッラー noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Kazakh
1 entries- молда noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Korean
1 entries- 물라 noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Kumyk
1 entries- молла noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- молдо noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Macedonian
1 entries- му́ла noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Malay
1 entries- mullah noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Nogai
1 entries- молла noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- mela noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- mele noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Pashto
1 entries- ملا noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Polish
1 entries- mułła noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Portuguese
1 entries- mulá noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਮੁੱਲਾ noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Russian
1 entries- мулла́ noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Sango
1 entries- mâlamu noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mula noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- мула noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Southern Altai
1 entries- мулла noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Spanish
1 entries- mulá noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Tajik
2 entries- мулло noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- охунд noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Tatar
1 entries- мулла noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ሙላህ noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Turkish
1 entries- molla noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Turkmen
1 entries- molla noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мулла́ noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Urdu
2 entries- مَولْوِی noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- مُلّا noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Uyghur
3 entries- ئاخۇن noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- موللا noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- موللام noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Uzbek
2 entries- mulla noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
- oxund noun (a Muslim religious scholar and teacher)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Leading Republicans do not sympathize with the mullahs, do not repeat their talking points, and do not seek to appease them when they make outrageous claims about other countries.
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In the first week of March 2018, the Shia mullah issues a fatwa prohibiting vengeance killing and requiring reconciliation.
Source: wiktionary
But I mullahed him. He may have been four inches taller but I punched him through the ropes and knocked the granny and the grandad out of him.
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