Examples of “hakim” in a Sentence

noun A physician, especially one practicing traditional or herbal medicine in South Asia or the Middle East.

• I went up to them, and they said, ‘We hear that you are a hakim, who has done great things.’ — GA Henty, With Kitchener in the Soudan (1903)
• The village hakim treated most illnesses with herbal remedies.
• �It was his duty to report suspicious characters, and conceivably it was some disreputable hakim who had prowled up from the bazaar.’ — EM Forster, A Passage to India (1924)

noun Historically, a judge or governor in Muslim India.

• The local hakim settled land disputes among the villagers.