mollah
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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I am an attendant upon the chief executioner, with whom the mollah bashi, I believe, has some money transactions.'
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
I recollected to have heard that the village of the mollah bashi lay somewhere in the direction of Hamadan, and consequently I directed my course thither.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
One of the slips is then drawn at random, and a mollah takes up the child, and pronounces in its ear the name found upon it, after which he places the paper on its clothes.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The mollah produced a small golden box, from which he took a silver case.
From Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Oliver Optic
The Shah ordered prayers to be put up at all the mosques in the city for rain, and the mollah bashi was very active in enforcing the order.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
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