scholar vs mujtihad

mujtihad vs scholar

scholar and mujtihad both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scholar	Yes	No	No	No
mujtihad	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mujtihad is a hyponym of scholar; that is, mujtihad is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scholar:

scholar: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
mujtihad: an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts

Other hyponyms of scholar include academician, schoolman, alum, grad, graduate, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, book lover, booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, humanist, initiate, learned person, pundit, savant, Islamist, licentiate, Masorete, Masorite, Massorete, master, musicologist, bookworm, pedant, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, post doc, postdoc, reader, Renaissance man, generalist, Renaissance man, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist.

scholar (noun)	mujtihad (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
a student who holds a scholarship

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