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mujtahid

noun

mujtahid is spelled M-U-J-T-A-H-I-D: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mujtahid means “A lawyer entitled to exercise ijtihad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mujtahid is mujtahids.

How many letters and syllables are in mujtahid?

Letters8: M-U-J-T-A-H-I-D
In writingabout once in every 51 million words; the 222,788th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is mujtahid?

Mujtahid appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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).

Forms of mujtahid

  • mujtahids plural

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

What does mujtahid mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A lawyer entitled to exercise ijtihad.

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

Where does mujtahid come from?

From Arabic مُجْتَهِد (mujtahid, literally “diligent”).

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

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