Definition of ayatollah - Reverso French Dictionary

Noun, masc/fem

religiontitre religieux élevé donné aux chefs spirituels chiites

L'ayatollah Khomeini a dirigé la révolution iranienne en 1979.

figurépersonne très stricte et inflexible sur ses principes

Il joue les ayatollahs de l'écologie dans toutes nos discussions.

intransigeant

puriste

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Origin of ayatollah

arabe, ayat (signe) + allah (Dieu)

Examples of ayatollah in a sentence

Plusieurs ayatollahs participaient à la cérémonie religieuse.
C’est un ayatollah des règles de grammaire.
Les ayatollahs de la sécurité refusent tout compromis.

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English:ayatollah, hardliner, ...
German:Ayatollah, Hardliner, ...
Italian:ayatollah, personaggio molto severo sui principi, ...
Spanish:ayatolá, fanático, ...
Portuguese:aiatolá, ayatollah, ...
Chinese:阿亚图拉, 原教旨主义者, ...
Japanese:アヤトラ, 原理主義者, ...
Arabic:آية الله, متشدد, ...
Hebrew:אַיָּתוֹלָּה, קַנַּאי, ...
Russian:аятолла, айатолла, ...
Ukrainian:аятола, фанатик, ...
Catalan:ayatollah, aiatol.là, ...
Danish:ayatollah, fundamentalist, ...
Dutch:ayatollah, strenge leider, ...
Greek:αϊ-αλάχ, φανατικός, ...
Hungarian:ajatollah, fundamentalista, ...
Khmer:អាយ៉ាតូឡា, មនុស្សប្រកាន់តឹងរ៉ឹង, ...
Korean:아야톨라, 원리주의자, ...
Polish:ajatollah, twardziel, ...
Portuguese (BR):ayatollah, aiatolá, ...
Romanian:ayatollah, dogmatic, ...
Swedish:ayatolla, fundamentalist, ...
Thai:อยาตอลเลาะห์, คนหัวรุนแรง, ...
Turkish:ayetullah, ayatollah, ...
Vietnamese:ayatollah, người giáo điều, ...

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