فتوی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā, “a decision given by a mufti”).

Noun

فتوی • (fetva)

1. (Islam) fatwa

Descendants

• Turkish: fetva
• → Albanian: fetva
• → Hungarian: fetva
• → Serbo-Croatian: fȅtva, фе̏тва

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فتوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1365