hamal

American  

[huh-mahl, -mawl] / həˈmɑl, -ˈmɔl /

Or hammal

noun

1. (in some Muslim countries) a porter.

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hamal British  

/ həˈmɑːl /

noun

1. (in Middle Eastern countries) a porter, bearer, or servant

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Etymology

Origin of hamal

1960–65; < Arabic hammāl porter, carrier, akin to hamala to carry

Example Sentences

He has laid a veneer of American-style street smarts on the skills of the hamal, or dock walloper, who learned survival on the wharves of Turkish Constantinople.

From Time Magazine Archive

"When I was in my father's house, I was in a better place." hey were putting Punch to bed—the ayah and the hamal, and Meeta, the big Surti boy with the red and gold turban.

From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Kipling, Rudyard

Now it was my painful duty to go every morning up to his office-room and see that peon had put fresh ink and everything ready and that the hamal had dusted properly.

From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Wren, Percival Christopher

He went and fetched the hamal, who slunk through his task with the air of a condemned felon.

From Guns of the Gods by Mundy, Talbot

The hamal made the tiger-noises in twenty different keys.

From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Kipling, Rudyard