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petua

Borrowed from Arabic فَتْوَى (fatwā, “formal legal opinion”), the verbal noun of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”). From Classical Syriac ܦܬܘܐ (peṯwā, “spinning out, breadth (of words)”). Doublet of fatwa. A common folk etymology claims it's a syllabic abbreviation of pesan orang tua (“elder's advice”).

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