ameen
See also: Ameen
English
Alternative forms
- amin
Etymology
Arabic أمين (ʾamīn, “loyal, reliable, trustworthy”).
Noun
ameen (plural ameens)
- (India, historical) Any of various native Indian officials employed by the civil courts, for example to investigate accounts connected with a suit, to prosecute local enquiries of any kind bearing on a suit, to sell or to deliver over possession of immovable property, or to carry out legal process as a bailiff.
Alternative forms
- amin, aumeen, aumin
References
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “ameen”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 17.