Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A leader of an Arab village or district, usually chosen or approved by consensus.
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- noun The
head of avillage in manyArab countries and inCyprus .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In Round 12, Martin missed the Arabic word mukhtar, meaning head of a village.
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Separately, a Kurdish "mukhtar," or notary, Ahmed Farej Samed was killed in the street in the ethnically divided city of Kirkuk, also north of the capital.
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The former mukhtar told Lieutenant Turner not to return, because he was afraid for his life.
The Coming Normalcy? 2006
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In nearby Qizilja, the Timimi tribe, which is Shia, is in the ascendancy, under the leadership of the powerful Mahdi Hassan Attia, the local mukhtar (magistrate).
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The former mukhtar seemed to like the American lieutenant.
The Coming Normalcy? 2006
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The tribe could protect the former mukhtar in the countryside, but not in the city.
The Coming Normalcy? 2006
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"Take their names and we will run them past the mukhtar."
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The former mukhtar seemed to like the American lieutenant.
The Coming Normalcy? 2006
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And how is it that when it was mooted by Olmert that the satellite Arab villages surrounding Jerusalem be under the jurisdiction of a future Palestinian state, there was a furious outcry against it, the mukhtar of one saying that he preferred the rule of law in Israel to the lawlessness of the PA?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Just getting anyone in the area to tell the platoon where the former mukhtar lived had taken three months of pleading, and after several false leads that day, the soldiers had found him.
The Coming Normalcy? 2006
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