fatwa
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Is fatwa a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Islam)Examples: "The website contains fatwas on points of Islamic law that arise in court cases."; "In 2015, one person was killed in Copenhagen at a meeting meant to mark the 25th anniversary of an Iranian fatwa against British writer Salman Rushdie, which Vilks attended."
2. (Islam)broadlyproscribed
3. (religion, by extension) A formal decree or ruling, or statement, issued by an authority of a religion other than Islam.broadly
4. (figurative, informal) An emphatic decree or opinion, especially one which condemns or criticizes.figurativelyinformal
verb (English)
1. (transitive, rare) To issue a fatwa (noun sense 1) against (someone); specifically (loosely, erroneous), a fatwa imposing a ban or a death sentence.Examples: "Unlike many writers and artists, Chahine had not been fatwaed by the militants, but he felt threatened nevertheless."; "One wonders why these terrorists are not fatwaed."; "'I'm just beginning one,' says famously-fatwaed author of new novel [subtitle]"raretransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary