vakil

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu وکیل (okel) / Hindi वकील (vakīl), from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl, agent).

Pronunciation

Noun

vakil (plural vakils)

  1. (South Asia) A lawyer or advocate mainly a representative in the court of law and a vakil can be a representative, especially of a political figure; an official or ambassador.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Consequences”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 69:
      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
    • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii:
      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.

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl).

Noun

vakil (plural vakillar)

  1. representative, delegate