fqih
English
Alternative forms
- faqih
Etymology
From Moroccan Arabic فقيه (fqīh).
Noun
fqih (plural fqihs or fuqaha')
- Alternative form of faqih
- 1973, Robin Leonard Bidwell, Morocco Under Colonial Rule, Routledge 1973, p. 171:
- 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.
- 1998, Alison Baker, Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women, SUNY Press 1998, p. 84:
- So my father asked the fqih, who lived in the same street that I lived in, to take me into his Koranic school.
- 1973, Robin Leonard Bidwell, Morocco Under Colonial Rule, Routledge 1973, p. 171:
Anagrams
- fiqh
French
Etymology
From Moroccan Arabic فقيه (fqīh).
Noun
fqih m (plural fqihs)
- fqih, faqih
Further reading
- “fqih”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.