Mukhtar

Quick meaning: Mukhtar is a noun meaning (India, historical) A person acting as an agent, particularly a lawyer.

Meaning

(India, historical) A person acting as an agent, particularly a lawyer.

More Meanings

1. (politics) A minor official—usually overseeing a village or town—in many Arab countries and (historical) in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, including Turkey, Northern Cyprus, and formerly Albania.

Example Sentences

Leaflets in Arabic on some subjects, distributed to and through Mukhtars, might do good.

The Mudîr and Mukhtar are inferior officials of the Kaimakam. The Mukhtars, properly only village magistrates, have to look after the punctual payment of the taxes, and are responsible for them.

Mukhtar Khan, the ſoubadar, who was attached to Azim Shaw, and father-in-law to Bedar Bukht, hoping to impede his progreſs, ſunk all the boats in the Jumna, and placed guards at the neareſt fords.

On my arrival at the gate I found that the doctor was absent; but I could see the mukhtar. The mukhtar is the principal man in every Cypriote village – a kind of mayor on a reduced scale. [From St. James's Gazette.]

Word Forms

• mukhtars
• muktar
• muktear

Related Words

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