mollah
Americannoun
noun
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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
The mollah dug in the ground, and water miraculously appeared.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Hard by is a small house where the pilgrims take their coffee, and the house of the Bedou mollah, who looks after the tomb, is about a quarter of a mile off.
From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent
We encamped near the hamlet of Saihon, where, though there was no appearance of a mosque, there was not only a mollah but a doctor.
From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent
This produced a universal tremor in the mollah, and I must own that it communicated itself to me in no agreeable manner.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
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