mau·la·na 
(mou-länə)
(mou-länə)n.
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1. A Muslim man respected for his religious knowledge or scholarship.
2. Used as a courtesy title for such a leader or scholar.
[Ultimately (partly via Persian and Urdu mawlānā) from Arabic, mawlānā : mawlā, master, friend; see MULLAH + -nā, our; see -n in the Appendix of Semitic roots.]