The story
- Arabic · derived fromمُطَوَّع“compliance officer, pious volunteer”
- English todaymutawa
From the Arabic مُطَوَّع (muṭawwaʕ, “compliance officer, pious volunteer”), from طَوَّعَ (ṭawwaʕa, “to subjugate”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.