mutawwa
/muːˈtɑːwə/ /mʊˈtɑːwə/noun
In Saudi Arabia: a member of the religious police.
- The official title of this body is the Committee for Propagating Virtue and Suppressing Evil..
Origin
1970s. From Arabic muṭṭawwiʿ (in colloquial pronunciation muṭṭawwaʿ) (plural muṭṭawwiʿa, (colloquial) muṭṭawwaʿīn) volunteer, person willingly offering (himself or his services for the furtherance of good), active participle of iṭṭawwaʿa, euphonic form of taṭawwaʿa to perform good deeds beyond those prescribed by Islamic law: see further (but with a different derivation) Encycl. Islam (new ed. vii, 1993) at Mutaṭawwiʿa, Muṭṭawwiʿa.
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