English

Noun

maulvi ‎(plural maulvis)

1. An imam; a Muslim doctor of law.
2. (loosely, chiefly South Asia) Any man of learning; a scholar, a teacher of Classical languages.
   • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 10:

     He had a maulvi and a pandit to teach him Urdu and Hindi.