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‖ omlah E. Indian.|ˈɒmlɑː|
Also 9 amlah, amla.
[ad. Arab. umalā, pl. of āmil aumil, ‘operator, agent’; properly used as a collective pl.; but sometimes erron. with Eng. pl. -s added.]
In northern India, A body or staff of native officials in a civil court.
c1778R. Lindsay in Lives Lindsays (1849) III. 166, I was at this place met by the Omlah, or officers belonging to the establishment. 1834Baboo I. xvii. 303 The table surrounded by the Amlah and the Mookhtars. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 57 The corruption of the omlah, or native officers of the courts. 1866Trevelyan Dawk Bungalow ii. in Fraser's Mag. LXXIII. 390 We will hint to the omlahs to discover a fast which it is necessary that they shall keep with great solemnity. 1872E. Braddon Life in India vi. 253 The venality and turpitude of the native amla of our courts. |