ameen

See also: Ameen

English

Alternative forms

• amin

Etymology

From Arabic أمين (ʔamīn, “loyal, reliable, trustworthy”).

Noun

ameen (plural ameens)

1. (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.