omlah
English
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic عَمَلَة (ʿamala), plural of عَامِل (ʿāmil, “worker”).
Noun
omlah (plural omlahs)
- A staff of native clerks or officials in India.
Further reading
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “omlah”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 637.