vakil

== English == === Alternative forms === vakeel === Etymology === Borrowed from Urdu وکیل / Hindi वकील (vakīl), from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl, “agent”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vəˈkiːl/ Rhymes: -iːl === Noun === vakil (plural vakils) (South Asia) Alternative form of vakeel. 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii: A berth was reserved for me by my friends in the same cabin as that of Sergt. Tryambakrai Mazmudar, the Junagadh vakil. They also commended me to him. He was an experienced man of mature age and knew the world. I was yet a stripling of eighteen without any experience of the world. Sergt. Mazmudar told my friends not to worry about me. == Uzbek == === Etymology === From Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl). Doublet of oʻkil (“proxy (for bride or groom at a betrothal ceremony)”). === Noun === vakil (plural vakillar) representative, delegate