Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wise or learned man; specifically, a physician.
- noun In Mohammedan countries, a governor, as of a province.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A wise man; a physician, esp. a Mohammedan.
- noun India A Mohammedan title for a ruler; a judge.
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- noun A
doctor .
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- noun a Muslim physician
- noun a Muslim ruler or governor or judge
Etymologies
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Examples
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More than ever it was obvious that the hakim was a very simple man.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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More than ever it was obvious that the hakim was a very simple man.
King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909
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Mere mention of the place made them regard Orakzai Pathan and hakim with new respect, as having right of entry through the forbidden gate.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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"Shall I leave my brother in the lurch?" the hakim asked them; and though they murmured, they thought better of him for it.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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As a hakim -- a man of medicine -- he could fill a long-felt want; but by the brand on his accouterments he walked an openly avowed robber, and that made him a brother in crime.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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"Yet, to enter Khinjan Caves you had to slay a man, hakim or no!"
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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Some even began to urge the hakim not to wait for the Orakzai Pathan, but to start with what he had.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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They began to remember that the hakim might after all be a trickster, and to realize how much too friendly -- how almost intimate he had been with the sahibs at Ali Masjid.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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Like the others, he seemed decided in his mind that the hakim ought not to be allowed much chance to escape.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
WanderlustDreamer commented on the word hakim
Word is used in Chapter XXVII of "The Rerurn of Dr Fu-Manchu" by Sax Rohmer.
March 5, 2015