vakil
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- 14
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- 5
/vəˈkiːl/
Definition of vakil
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(South-Asia, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of vakeel.
“These papers deal with all sorts of things—from the payment of Rs.200 to a ‘secret service’ native, up to rebukes administered to Vakils and Motamids of Native States”
“A berth was reserved for me by my friends in the same cabin as that of Sergt. Tryambakrai Mazmudar, the Junagadh vakil. They also commended me to him. He was an experienced man of mature age and knew the world. I was yet a stripling of eighteen without any experience of the world. Sergt. Mazmudar told my friends not to worry about me.”
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noun
-
(South-Asia, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of vakeel.
“These papers deal with all sorts of things—from the payment of Rs.200 to a ‘secret service’ native, up to rebukes administered to Vakils and Motamids of Native States”
“A berth was reserved for me by my friends in the same cabin as that of Sergt. Tryambakrai Mazmudar, the Junagadh vakil. They also commended me to him. He was an experienced man of mature age and knew the world. I was yet a stripling of eighteen without any experience of the world. Sergt. Mazmudar told my friends not to worry about me.”
name
- A surname from Hindi [in turn from Arabic].
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Urdu وکیل / Hindi वकील (vakīl), from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl, “agent”).
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