ṭwʕ / Semitic roots

Central Semitic, to obey.

mutawa, from Arabic muṭṭawwiʕ, volunteer, one following the noncompulsory practices recommended in the shari'a, active participle of iṭṭawwaʕa, to volunteer, contracted form of taṭawwaʕa, to volunteer, reflexive of ṭawwaʕa, to make obedient, factative of ṭāʕa, to be obedient.