fqih

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"In the early days of the Protectorate, the fqih or clerk-interpreter was often an Algerian who despised the local Arabs as rustics and regarded the Berbers as scarcely human."
"So my father asked the fqih, who lived in the same street that I lived in, to take me into his Koranic school."

From Moroccan Arabic فقيه (fqīh).

fqihs (plural) fuqaha' (plural) faqih (alternative)

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