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  • noun Plural form of hakim.

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Examples

  • “The hakims have prepared some miraculous ointments, and the pain is so faint now I hardly feel it.”

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • The imperial hakims had warned them to keep her room as hygienic as possible to avoid infection, and his face and hands dripped with water from a recent washing.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • The imperial hakims had warned them to keep her room as hygienic as possible to avoid infection, and his face and hands dripped with water from a recent washing.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • “The hakims have prepared some miraculous ointments, and the pain is so faint now I hardly feel it.”

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • “The hakims have prepared some miraculous ointments, and the pain is so faint now I hardly feel it.”

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • The imperial hakims had warned them to keep her room as hygienic as possible to avoid infection, and his face and hands dripped with water from a recent washing.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • In Nepal the political leadership derisively ignore the role and significances of Home Secretary, Chief District Officers or Civil Administrators in Security Management, and they give over important to the polices hakims exclusively, which is beyond the norms of hierarchical chain of command and abuse of legally provided span.

    Empower Home Administration in Nepal 2008

  • Oh, the cleverness of these European _hakims_, 'and he raised hands and eyes in wonder as he sighed piously.

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

  • He has been here four days; but hearing ye were coming (hakims and priests are snake and tiger the world over) he has, as I take it, gone to cover. '

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The surgeon, who had been sent on by James Antony with the reinforcements, was young and active, and having at present no patients, since the native troops scouted him in favour of their own hakims, was ready to take any part in the fighting, from heading a cavalry charge to bringing up ammunition, but found himself relegated to the post of galloper.

    The Path to Honour Sydney C. Grier 1900

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