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Vail vs Vakil - What's the difference?

vail | vakil |

As a proper noun vail

is .

As a noun vakil is

(india) a representative, especially of a political figure; an official or ambassador.

vail

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) profit; return; proceeds.
  • * Chapman
    • My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
  • (chiefly, in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale .
    • (Dryden)

    Etymology 2

    Aphetic form of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) submission

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To yield.
  • * South
    • Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
  • (obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
  • * Shakespeare
    • France must vail her lofty-plumed crest!
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic
  • To let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Vail your regard / Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)

    • Anagrams

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    vakil

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (India) A representative, especially of a political figure; an official or ambassador.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Consequences’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 69:
    • These papers deal with all sorts of things—from the payment of Rs.200 to a ‘secret service’ native, up to rebukes administered to Vakils and Motamids of Native States