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faqih

noun

faqih is a noun meaning “An expert in Islamic law” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-Q-I-H, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of faqih is faqihs or fuqaha'.

What does faqih mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An expert in Islamic law.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of faqih

  • faqihs plural
  • fuqaha' plural
  • fqih

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is faqih?

Faqih appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does faqih come from?

Borrowed from Arabic فَقِيه (faqīh).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).