maulana


mau·la·na

M5165550 (mou-lä′nə)n. Islam 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 Urdu mawlānā) from Arabic, mawlānā : mawlā, master, friend; see mullah + -nā, our; see -n in Semitic roots.]

Maulana

(mɔːˈlɑːnɑː) n(in Pakistan, India, etc) a title used for a scholar of Persian and Arabic[Urdu, from Arabic mawlānā]