mutawa

1. 1.

   religious police in Saudi Arabia whose duty is to ensure strict adherence to established codes of conduct; offenders may be detained indefinitely; foreigners are not excluded

   SynonymsMutawa'een

   Broaderpolice

   Saudi Arabia

Other forms of mutawa

plural

mutawas·

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 mutawa

What does mutawa mean?

mutawa means "religious police in Saudi Arabia whose duty is to ensure strict adherence to established codes of conduct; offenders may be detained indefinitely; foreigners are not excluded".

How many syllables are in mutawa?

mutawa has 3 syllables: mu-ta-wa. The stress falls on "mu".

What is another word for mutawa?

Close synonyms include Mutawa'een. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mutawa a common word?

mutawa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.