hakim

plural hakims · plural hukama · alternative archaic hackeem · alternative archaic hakeem · alternative archaic huckeem · alternative archaic hukeem

1. South AsiaA doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine.

   I went up to them, and they said, ‘We hear that you are a hakim, who has done great things.’

   1903, GA Henty, With Kitchener in the Soudan

   3 more examples

   The second speaks of naturall Philosophy or Physick, and is studyed by the Hackeams or Physitians […]

   1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I

   ‘It was his duty to report suspicious characters, and conceivably it was some disreputable hakim who had prowled up from the bazaar.’

   1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 28

   The Englishman was to remain there for three weeks, this time posing as a hakeem, secretly observing and noting down everything of significance.

   1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 116

plural hakims · plural hukama · alternative archaic hackeem · alternative archaic hakeem · alternative archaic huckeem · alternative archaic hukeem

1. historicalA judge or governor in Islamic India.

plural Hakims · alternative Hakeem

1. A surname from Arabic.
2. A male given name from Arabic.