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

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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