hakim

Alternative forms

• hackeem (archaic)
• hakeem

Etymology

From Hindi/Urdu, from Persian حکیم‎ (hakim), from Arabic حَكِيم‎ (ḥakīm, “wise, learned”).

Noun

hakim (plural hakims)

1. (South Asia) A doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine.
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, I:

     The second speaks of naturall Philosophy or Physick, and is studyed by the Hackeams or Physitians […]

   • 1903, GA Henty, With Kitchener in the Soudan:

     I went up to them, and they said, ‘We hear that you are a hakim, who has done great things.’

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 28:

     ‘It was his duty to report suspicious characters, and conceivably it was some disreputable hakim who had prowled up from the bazaar.’

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 116:

     The Englishman was to remain there for three weeks, this time posing as a hakeem, secretly observing and noting down everything of significance.

Anagrams

• Makhi

Etymology

From Arabic حَاكِم‎ (ḥākim)

Noun

hakim

1. judge (public judicial official)

Alternative forms

• hàćim

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish حَاكِم‎ (hakȋm) (Turkish hakim, from Arabic حَاكِم‎ (ḥākim, “judge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xǎkim/
• Hyphenation: ha‧kim

Noun

hákim m (Cyrillic spelling ха́ким)

1. (regional) a wise man
2. (regional) judge

References

• “hakim” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Abdulah Škaljić (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Svjetlost: Sarajevo, page 302

Etymology 1

From Arabic حَاكِم‎ (ḥākim, “judge”).

Etymology 2

From Arabic حَكِيم‎ (ḥakīm, “wise”).