Hakim meaning

hä'kēm
A doctor, especially one who practices traditional medicine, in a predominantly Muslim culture.
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An honorific traditionally applied to a Muslim ruler, provincial governor, or judge.
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A Muslim physician.
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A Muslim ruler or judge.
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A doctor, especially one who practices traditional medicine, in a predominantly Muslim culture.
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(South Asia) A doctor.
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Origin of hakim

Arabic ḥakīm wise, wise man from ḥakama to judge, decide ḥkm in Semitic roots

Sentence Examples

  • 99 6 (386 A.H.) Hakim Biamrillahi (i.e.

  • Ali among Shiite Mahommedans; the Bab in Babism; the Druse Hakim).

  • The fanaticism of the caliph Hakim destroyed the church of the Sepulchre and ended the Frankish protectorate (Ioio); and the patronage of the Holy Places, a source of strife between the Greek and the Latin Churches as late as the beginning of the Crimean War, passed to the Byzantine empire in 1021.

  • In the r3th century a portion of Hakim's addition was pulled down to make way for the first cathedral, which was dedicated to the Virgin.

  • The province is divided into a number of administrative sub-provinces or districts, each with a hakim, governor or sub-governor, under the governor-general, who under the Kajar dynasty has always been the heir-apparent to the throne of Persia, assisted by a responsible minister appointed by the shah.

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