Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fatwa
Participle: fatwaed
Gerund: fatwaing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fatwa |
| you | fatwa |
| he;she;it | fatwas |
| we | fatwa |
| you | fatwa |
| they | fatwa |
Perfect
| I | have fatwaed |
| you | have fatwaed |
| he;she;it | has fatwaed |
| we | have fatwaed |
| you | have fatwaed |
| they | have fatwaed |
Past
| I | fatwaed |
| you | fatwaed |
| he;she;it | fatwaed |
| we | fatwaed |
| you | fatwaed |
| they | fatwaed |
Pluperfect
| I | had fatwaed |
| you | had fatwaed |
| he;she;it | had fatwaed |
| we | had fatwaed |
| you | had fatwaed |
| they | had fatwaed |
Future
| I | will fatwa |
| you | will fatwa |
| he;she;it | will fatwa |
| we | will fatwa |
| you | will fatwa |
| they | will fatwa |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fatwaed |
| you | will have fatwaed |
| he;she;it | will have fatwaed |
| we | will have fatwaed |
| you | will have fatwaed |
| they | will have fatwaed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fatwa |
| you | fatwa |
| he;she;it | fatwa |
| we | fatwa |
| you | fatwa |
| they | fatwa |
Perfect
| I | have fatwaed |
| you | have fatwaed |
| he;she;it | have fatwaed |
| we | have fatwaed |
| you | have fatwaed |
| they | have fatwaed |
Imperfect
| I | fatwaed |
| you | fatwaed |
| he;she;it | fatwaed |
| we | fatwaed |
| you | fatwaed |
| they | fatwaed |
Pluperfect
| I | had fatwaed |
| you | had fatwaed |
| he;she;it | had fatwaed |
| we | had fatwaed |
| you | had fatwaed |
| they | had fatwaed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fatwa |
| you | would fatwa |
| he;she;it | would fatwa |
| we | would fatwa |
| you | would fatwa |
| they | would fatwa |
Perfect
| I | would have fatwaed |
| you | would have fatwaed |
| he;she;it | would have fatwaed |
| we | would have fatwaed |
| you | would have fatwaed |
| they | would have fatwaed |
Imperative
| you | fatwa |
| we | Let's fatwa |
| you | fatwa |
Verbs conjugated like 'fatwa'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fatwa'
fatwah,
fat,
fate,
fawn,
atom,
atray,
awe,
aww,
baa,
bat,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is borrowed from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”) (whence مُفْتٍ (muftin, “mufti”), the active participle of the same verb: see mufti).
2. The forms fetwa, fetwah are derived from Italian fetfà (obsolete), and directly from its etymon Ottoman Turkish فتوی (fetva) (modern Turkish fetva), from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā): see above.
3. Modern uses of noun sense 1.2 (“decree that a person should be put to death”) and the corresponding verb sense are probably influenced by the issuance of a fatwa on 14 February 1989 by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1900 or 1902 – 1989), the Supreme Leader of Iran, calling for the British-American author Salman Rushdie (born 1947) and his publishers to be put to death for alleged blasphemy in his novel The Satanic Verses (1988).
4. The plural form fatawa is borrowed from Arabic فَتَاوَى (fatāwā).
5. The verb is derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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Unlike many writers and artists, Chahine had not been fatwaed by the militants, but he felt threatened nevertheless. [1999, Mary Anne Weaver, “Life in the Alleys”, in A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey through the World of Militant Islam, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 141:]
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One wonders why these terrorists are not fatwaed. [2002, South Asia Politics, volume 1, New Delhi: Rashtriya Jagriti Sansthan, →OCLC, page 30, column 2:]
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'I'm just beginning one,' says famously-fatwaed author of new novel [subtitle] [2013 April 15, Katie Van Syckle, “Q&A: Salman Rushdie Talks ‘Midnight’s Children,’ Other Projects”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2024:]
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Ask Salman Rushdie. He was fatwaed for linking facts and fiction in ways that the mullahs say they should not be linked. [2015, Mohamed Gibril Sesay, “The Youth of Paradise”, in This Side of Nothingness […] (Sierra Leonean Writers Series), Freetown, Sierra Leone: Karantha Publishers, →ISBN, page 186:]