vakeel

American  

[vuh-keel] / vəˈkil /

Or vakil

noun

Indian English.

1. a lawyer, agent, or representative.

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Etymology

Origin of vakeel

First recorded in 1615–25; from Hindi vakēl, from Arabic wakīl

Example Sentences

While at Khartoum I happened to find Mahommed Her! the vakeel of Chenooda's party, who had instigated lily men to mutiny at Latooka, and had taken my deserters into his employ.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

The evening arrived, and my vakeel, with his usual cunning, came to ask me "whether I intended to start to-morrow?"

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

The establishment consisted of about a dozen straw huts, occupied by a wretched fever-stricken set of people; the vakeel, and others employed, came to the boats to beg for corn.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

The drum beat, and the vakeel himself went into the men's quarters, and endeavoured to prevail upon them to answer the call.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

After some days, the absconded guide, Rabonga, appeared with a number of men, but without either my vakeel or Yaseen.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Baker, Samuel White, Sir