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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl).
Noun
wakil (plural wakils)
- In Arabian countries and in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, a lawyer or an administrator; one acting on behalf of another.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay wakil,
from Classical Malay wakil, from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl).
Pronunciation
Noun
wakil (plural wakil-wakil, first-person possessive wakilku, second-person possessive wakilmu, third-person possessive wakilnya)
- vice: one who acts in place of a superior.
- Synonyms: deputi, naib
- envoy
- Synonyms: caraka, duta, utusan
- agent
- Synonym: agen
- representation
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