Lexicographical Neighbors of Mokaddam
Literary usage of Mokaddam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theosophical Review by Theosophical Publishing Society (London, England) (1896)
"Several people strolled in with no apparent object, and seemed, like ourselves,
to have nothing particular to do ; most of them came up to the mokaddam, ..."
2. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India by Robert Montgomery Martin (1838)
"The mokaddam takes from the tenant , ana on the rupee of money rent, and 1 ser
on the man of grain ... The clerk is allowed half as much as the mokaddam. ..."
3. With the Mission to Menelik, 1897 by Edward Gleichen (1898)
"5 Wober Megal, mokaddam— Twenty coolies (all Esa). 6. Camel-drivers (eighty of
the Esa-Ada tribe). (B) Animals. Ten riding horses, Aden Troop. ..."
4. Algeria and Tunis in 1845 by John Clark Kennedy (1846)
"The mokaddam, or chief of the sect, then chanted a prayer for all Mussulmen, and
called down upon them ... At the end of each prayer the mokaddam stopped, ..."
5. Orissa: Its Geography, Statistics, History, Religion, and Antiquities by Andrew Sterling, James Peggs (1846)
"If only two or three bigas were sold for the building of a house, patna, &c.
or disposed of as rent free, the individual Talukdar or mokaddam executed the ..."
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