English

Alternative forms

• moly [17th c.], mulay

Noun

mulai

1. A title for the ruler of Morocco.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.21:

     Moly Moluch, King of Fez, who not long since obtained that famous victory against Sebastian, King of Portugall, a notable victorie by reason of the death of three Kings, and transmission of so great a Kingdome to the crowne of Castile, chanced to be grievously sicke at what time the Portugales with armed hand entred his dominions […].

   • 1973, Nikshoy C Chatterji, Muddle of the Middle East, vol.II, p.228:

     Mulay Hafiz appealed to France. France immediately responded by sending a sizable expeditionary force to occupy Morocco.

   • 1992, Ivan van Sertima, Golden Age of the Moor, Journal of African Civilizations Ltd., 2009, p.4:

     One very famous Sultan, Moulai Ismail of Meknes, in Morocco, had as many as 25,000 European slaves who participated in the building of his colossal stables.

Indonesian

Preposition

mulai

1. from