ouléma

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish علما‎ (ʿulemâ), from Arabic عُلَمَاء‎ (ʕulamāʔ), plural of عَالِم‎ (ʕālim).

Noun

ouléma m (plural oulémas)

(Islam) a Muslim scholar

Further reading

“ouléma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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