amlah

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noun

A court official in India.

OriginHindustani ← Classical Persian عَمَلَه ← Arabic عَمَلَة →
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Meanings

nounamlah (plural amlahs)

plural amlahs

  1. IndiahistoricalA court official in India.

    Conscious of his own misdoings, it was his object to prevent the Santal from taking his complaint to the courts, though even there a bribe to the clerks and amlahs was sufficient to secure his safety.

    1990, Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, History and Ethnology of an Indian Upland, page 177

Origin

  1. Arabicعَمَلَة
  2. Classical Persianعَمَلَه
  3. Hindustani
  4. Englishamlah

Borrowed from Hindustani عَمَلَہ ('amala) / अमला (amlā), from Classical Persian عَمَلَه (amala), from Arabic عَمَلَة (ʕamala), plural of عَامِل (ʕāmil).

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