omlah

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic عَمَلَة (ʕamala), plural of عَامِل (ʕāmil, “worker”).

Noun

omlah (plural omlahs)

1. A staff of native clerks or officials in colonial Bengal.

Related terms

• omrah

Further reading

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “omlah”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 637.