Muhassil vs Mohassil - What's the difference?
muhassil | mohassil |
A senior public official under the Ottoman Empire charged with tax collection.
* 1794 , Alexander Russell, The Natural History of Aleppo , Second edition, vol. II, p. 22:
* 1870 , Andrew Archibald Paton, A History of the Egyptian Revolution , Second edition, vol. II, p. 100:
* 1952 , (George Francis Hill), A History of Cyprus , vol. IV, p. 75:
* 1999 , Edhem Eldem, French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century , p. 127:
As nouns the difference between muhassil and mohassil
is that muhassil is a senior public official under the ottoman empire charged with tax collection while mohassil is .muhassil
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Alternative forms
* mohassilNoun
(en noun)- The Mohassil , in return, pays a visit to the Consul, and is received with much pomp and the Consular house.
- Ibrahim Pasha, in addition to being governor of the holy cities, was made, on the 3rd of May, 1833, mohassil , or collector of the revenues of Adana.
- It was a promotion in status, the Pasha being next in rank to the Grand Vezir and therefore more important than a Muhassil ; but this was of course no guarantee of better government.
- A document sent to Istanbul by the mu?a???l of Aleppo in the 1790s clearly states that French bills of exchange had been purchased against payment of a ‘premium’ […].