vakeel

• vakil

From Urdu وکیل (vakīl) or Hindi वकील (vakīl), from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl, “agent”).

vakeel (plural vakeels)

1. (India, Pakistan) An attorney, lawyer or agent.
2. (India, Pakistan) An ambassador.

• wakil

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “vakeel”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 961.
• “vakeel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.