amlah

amlah (plural amlahs)

1. (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.

• Halma, Hamal, Mahal, almah, halma, hamal, mahal