vakeel

English

Alternative forms

• vakil

Etymology

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

Noun

vakeel (plural vakeels)

1. (India, Pakistan) A native attorney, lawyer or agent.
2. (India, Pakistan) An ambassador.

Related terms

• wakil

Further reading

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “vakeel”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 961.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vakeel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)