mujtihad

1. 1.

   an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts

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Other forms of mujtihad

plural

mujtihads·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mujtihad

What does mujtihad mean?

mujtihad means "an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts".

How many syllables are in mujtihad?

mujtihad has 3 syllables: muj-ti-had. The stress falls on "muj".

Is mujtihad a common word?

mujtihad is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.