Showing posts with label Arabic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arabic. Show all posts

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

No. 11.

Mufti, a word now meaning casual clothing, originally was an Arabic term for a scholar of Sharia Law. It gained its current definition via the British Army - mufti was the vaguely Eastern clothes worn by off-duty officers.

(Source: Wikipedia. Researched as curious to the ethnic origins of the word.)