hakim
IPA: hɑkˈim
noun
- (South Asia) A doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine.
- (historical) A judge or governor in Islamic India.
- A surname from Arabic.
- A male given name from Arabic
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Examples of "hakim" in Sentences
- "Yet, to enter Khinjan Caves you had to slay a man, hakim or no!"
- More than ever it was obvious that the hakim was a very simple man.
- Some even began to urge the hakim not to wait for the Orakzai Pathan, but to start with what he had.
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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.
- "Shall I leave my brother in the lurch?" the hakim asked them; and though they murmured, they thought better of him for it.
- Mere mention of the place made them regard Orakzai Pathan and hakim with new respect, as having right of entry through the forbidden gate.
- 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.
- 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.
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