"mutawa" meaning in All languages combined

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        "3": "مُطَوَّع",
        "4": "",
        "5": "compliance officer, pious volunteer"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic مُطَوَّع (muṭawwaʕ, “compliance officer, pious volunteer”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "ط و ع"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the Arabic مُطَوَّع (muṭawwaʕ, “compliance officer, pious volunteer”), from طَوَّعَ (ṭawwaʕa, “to subjugate”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mutaween",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "mutawa (plural mutaween)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 August 6, Scott Macleod, “Vice Squad”, in Time, CLXX, № 5, page 36:",
          "text": "Meanwhile, another trial is already under way in the city of Tabuk, where the family of a man who died of an apparent heart attack in the commission’s custody is likewise demanding a death sentence for four mutaween allegedly involved in his detention. Ahmed al-Bulawi died after being hauled into a local commission headquarters for being in a car with a woman who was not his close relative; the mutaween apparently acted too hastily, since it turned out that he was employed as the family’s driver.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "ibidem, page 37",
          "text": "Conservatively dressed, but not in the standard attire of Saudi women, Wynn-Stanley was harangued by a mutawwa, so she pulled out her Saudi-issued diplomatic identity card. The mutawwa’s response was to throw it on the ground and grind it into the pavement with the sole of his shoe, a gesture considered a grave insult in Arab custom."
        }
      ],
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        "A member of the religious police in Saudi Arabia."
      ],
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          "Saudi Arabia",
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        ]
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      "glosses": [
        "The religious police as a body."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mʊˈtɑːwə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muːˈtɑːwə/"
    }
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      "word": "mutawwa"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "muttawa"
    }
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  "word": "mutawa"
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    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
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    "English terms derived from the Arabic root ط و ع",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "Arabic مُطَوَّع (muṭawwaʕ, “compliance officer, pious volunteer”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "ط و ع"
      },
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the Arabic مُطَوَّع (muṭawwaʕ, “compliance officer, pious volunteer”), from طَوَّعَ (ṭawwaʕa, “to subjugate”).",
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    {
      "form": "mutaween",
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    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "2007 August 6, Scott Macleod, “Vice Squad”, in Time, CLXX, № 5, page 36:",
          "text": "Meanwhile, another trial is already under way in the city of Tabuk, where the family of a man who died of an apparent heart attack in the commission’s custody is likewise demanding a death sentence for four mutaween allegedly involved in his detention. Ahmed al-Bulawi died after being hauled into a local commission headquarters for being in a car with a woman who was not his close relative; the mutaween apparently acted too hastily, since it turned out that he was employed as the family’s driver.",
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          "ref": "ibidem, page 37",
          "text": "Conservatively dressed, but not in the standard attire of Saudi women, Wynn-Stanley was harangued by a mutawwa, so she pulled out her Saudi-issued diplomatic identity card. The mutawwa’s response was to throw it on the ground and grind it into the pavement with the sole of his shoe, a gesture considered a grave insult in Arab custom."
        }
      ],
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        "A member of the religious police in Saudi Arabia."
      ],
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        ]
      ]
    },
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        "The religious police as a body."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/mʊˈtɑːwə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muːˈtɑːwə/"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "mutawwa"
    },
    {
      "word": "muttawa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mutawa"
}