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vakil en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /vəˈkiːl/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (South-Asia, alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of vakeel.
   alt of vakeel
   • A person shall be qualified under this section if he […] is a barrister, advocate or vakil of not less than fourteen years’ standing who practices or has practised in British India. 1929, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1(2)”, in Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1929, page 17:
   • 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. 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii
   • 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 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Consequences”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 69:

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