HAKIM • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Hakim

"Hakim" Quotes from Famous Books

... ceaselessly around in his circular path. In the streets we frequently encountered boys and old men gathering manure for their winter fuel; and now and then a cripple or invalid would accost us as "Hakim" ("Doctor"), for the medical work of the missionaries has given these simple-minded folk the impression that all foreigners are physicians. Coming up and extending a hand for us to feel the pulse they would ask us to do ...

— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben

... The Hakim Bashi, the Sultan's physician, who as a Jew-Turk himself, was thought to be the fittest to approach Sabbatai, laid the decision of the Grand Seignior before him on the evening of his arrival at Adrianople. The released prisoner was lodged with mocking splendor ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... Fu-Manchu, my kind gentlemen—it was the hakim who is really not a man at all, but an efreet. He found us again less than four days after you had left us, Smith Pasha!... He found us in Cairo, and to Karamaneh he made the forgetting of all things—even of ...

— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

Words linked to "Hakim" : doctor, swayer, medico, doc, md, ruler, Moslem, physician, hakeem, Al-hakim, Muslim, Dr.