mutawa

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A member of the religious police in Saudi Arabia.
    — Meanwhile, another trial is already under way in the city of Tabuk, where the family of a man who died of an apparent heart attack in the commission’s custody is likewise demanding a death sentence for four mutaween allegedly involved in his detention. Ahmed al-Bulawi died after being hauled into a local commission headquarters for being in a car with a woman who was not his close relative; the mutaween apparently acted too hastily, since it turned out that he was employed as the family’s driver.
  2. The religious police as a body.

词形变化

mutaween plural mutawwa alternative muttawa alternative

词源

From the Arabic مُطَوَّع (muṭawwaʕ, “compliance officer, pious volunteer”), from طَوَّعَ (ṭawwaʕa, “to subjugate”).
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