amlah
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]amlah (plural amlahs)
- (India, historical) A court official in India.
- 1990, Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, History and Ethnology of an Indian Upland, page 177:
- Conscious of his own misdoings, it was his object to prevent the Santal from taking his complaint to the courts, though even there a bribe to the clerks and amlahs was sufficient to secure his safety.