فتوى

Arabic

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܦܬܘܐ (peṯwā, spinning out, breadth (of words)), with some details in the sectarian semantics of Late Antiquity Aramaic crossed with Arabic, that led to the present specification, now being obscure. أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, to deliver a formal opinion) was parallelly borrowed.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fat.waː/

Noun

فَتْوَى • (fatwā) f (dual فَتْوَيَانِ (fatwayāni), plural فَتَاوَى (fatāwā) or فَتَاوٍ (fatāwin))

  1. (law, fiqh) fatwa, formal legal opinion
  2. a medical prescription
    • a. 1135, Ibn ʿAbdūn, “Un document sur la vie urbaine et les corps de métiers à Séville au début du XIIe siècle: Le traité d’Ibn ʿAbdūn publié avec une introduction et un glossaire”, in Évariste Lévi-Provençal, editor, Journal asiatique, number 2, published 1934, page 237 (٤٥) 7:

Declension

Descendants

  • Danish: fatwa
  • German: Fatwa
  • English: fatwa
  • Indonesian: fatwa
  • Malay: petua, fatwa
  • Ottoman Turkish: فتوی (fetva)
  • Persian: فتوا (fatvâ)
  • Portuguese: fátua
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