omlah

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic عَمَلَة‎ (ʿamala), plural of عَامِل‎ (ʿāmil, “worker”).

Noun

omlah (plural omlahs)

A staff of native clerks or officials in India.

Further reading

Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “omlah”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 637.

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