different between lawyer vs fatwa

English

Alternative forms

• lawer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law +? -yer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??j?(?)/, /?l??.?(?)/
• (US, Northern and Western) IPA^(key): /?l??.?/
• (US, Southern) IPA^(key): /?l?.j?/
• Rhymes: -??.?, -??.?(?), -???(?)
• Hyphenation: law?yer

Noun

lawyer (plural lawyers)

1. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.

   • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].

   A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation

2. (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
3. (Britain, colloquial) The burbot.
4. (Britain, dialect, botany) The stem of a bramble.
5. Any of various plants. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Synonyms

• advocate
• attorney
• counselor

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lawyer (third-person singular simple present lawyers, present participle lawyering, simple past and past participle lawyered)

1. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
2. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
3. (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
4. (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

   You've been lawyered!

Related terms

• lawyer up

See also

• solicitor
• barrister

References

Anagrams

• Rawley, warely, yawler

Middle English

Noun

lawyer

1. Alternative form of lawier

English

Alternative forms

• fatwah, fetwa
• fetwah (archaic)

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (fatw?, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”). ??????? (muftin, “mufti”) is the active participle of the same verb.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fatw??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fætw?/, /?f?tw?/

Noun

fatwa (plural fatwas or fatawa)

1. (Islam) A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer.

Translations

Verb

fatwa (third-person singular simple present fatwas, present participle fatwaing, simple past and past participle fatwaed)

1. (rare, transitive) To make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a ban or death sentence.

Anagrams

• tawaf

Danish

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (fatw?, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fæd??a]

Noun

fatwa c

1. (Islam) fatwa (legal opinion issued by a mufti)

Declension

Related terms

• mufti

French

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (fatw?, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.twa/
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

fatwa f (plural fatwas)

1. (Islam) fatwa (legal opinion issued by a mufti)

Related terms

• mufti

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (fatw?, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.twa/

Noun

fatwa f (invariable)

1. (Islam) fatwa (legal opinion issued by a mufti)

Related terms

• muftì

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (fatw?, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fat.wa/

Noun

fatwa (Jawi spelling ?????, plural fatwa-fatwa, informal 1st possessive fatwaku, impolite 2nd possessive fatwamu, 3rd possessive fatwanya)

1. (Islam) fatwa (legal opinion issued by a mufti)

Related terms

• memfatwakan
• mufti

Further reading

• “fatwa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Polish

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (fatw?, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.tfa/

Noun

fatwa f

1. (Islam) fatwa (legal opinion issued by a mufti)

Declension

Related terms

• mufti

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fátua (rare)

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (fatw?, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?fa.tw?/, /?fa.tu.?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?fa.tw?/

Noun

fatwa f (plural fatwas)

1. (Islam) fatwa (legal opinion issued by a mufti)

Related terms

• mufti

Spanish

Noun

fatwa f (plural fatwas)

1. Alternative spelling of fatua