ameen

See also: Ameen

English

Alternative forms

amin

Etymology

Arabic أمين (ʔamīn, “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

Derived terms

sudder ameen

References

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “ameen”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 17.

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