Mukhtar definition

mo͝oktär, mo͝oKH-
A leader of an Arab village or district, usually chosen or approved by consensus.
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Noun

Singular:
mukhtar
Plural:
mukhtars

Origin of mukhtar

  • Arabic muḫtār passive participle of iḫtāra to choose, elect, prefer derived stem of ḫāra to choose ḫyr in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mukhtar Sentence Examples

  • Every village or town district has a kind of mayor (mukhtar) appointed by election and approved by the official provincial authorities, and a " council of ancients " whose members are elected directly.

  • The tahsildars check the accounts of the kabz-i-mals, and, if they discover peculation, send them at once to be dealt with by the chief official authorities of the Gaza (department); all the electors of a mukhtar are, ipso facto, joint sureties for him.

  • Mukhtar Pasha and Sir Henry Drummond Wolff were appointed commissioners, and their joint inquiry lasted till the end of 1886, when.

  • In April a conference was held between the khedive and Mukhtar Pasha, the Ottoman commissioner.

  • As a compromise Mukhtar Pasha suggested as the frontier a line drawn direct from Raf a to Ras Mahommed (the most southern point of the Sinai peninsula), which would have left the whole of the gulf of Akaba in Turkish territory.

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