Home › Words › M › mutawamutawa/mʊˈtɑːwə/mutawa means A member of the religious police in Saudi Arabia.mutawa is pronounced /mʊˈtɑːwə/.EtymologyFrom the Arabic مُطَوَّع (muṭawwaʕ, “compliance officer, pious volunteer”), from طَوَّعَ (ṭawwaʕa, “to subjugate”).nounA member of the religious police in Saudi Arabia.The religious police as a body.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).