وَكِيل

The word in other languages

Each form in its own language's script, with its sources. Anything marked "single source" has only one source we could find, so it is shown on this page only, not on the card.

• Turkish vekil

  an agent, a proxy

  Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Turkish vekil single source

  also a minister; hence milletvekili, a member of parliament

  Sources: Wiktionary (English edition)

• Persian وکیل vakil on the card

  a lawyer; an agent

  Sources: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Urdu وکیل vakīl on the card

  a lawyer; an agent

  Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition; Rekhta Urdu Dictionary

• Indonesian wakil on the card

  an agent; a deputy: wakil presiden, the vice-president

  Sources: KBBI, Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language, 3rd edition (kbbi.web.id); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Malay wakil in Jawi script: واکيل

  a representative; in the Indonesian sense, a deputy

  Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Swahili wakili on the card

  a lawyer; an agent

  Sources: Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1903); Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Hausa wakili on the card

  a steward, a representative; a guardian

  Sources: Bargery, A Hausa-English Dictionary (1934), online edition; Robinson, Dictionary of the Hausa Language (Cambridge, 1913)