[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.272 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.272 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.272 - **Language:** English ### [c10.272](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.272) \*\*AMEEN\*\*, \*s.\* The word is Ar. \*amīn\*, meaning ‘a trustworthy person,’ and then an inspector, intendant, &c. In India it has several uses as applied to native officials employed under the Civil Courts, but nearly all reducible to the definition of \*fide-commissarius\*. Thus an \*\*ameen\*\* may be employed by a Court to investigate accounts connected with a suit, to prosecute local enquiries of any kind bearing on a suit, to sell or to deliver over possession of immovable property, to carry out legal process as a bailiff, &c. The name is also applied to native assistants in the duties of land-survey. But see \*Sudder Ameen\* (\*\*SUDDER\*\*). - [Previous: c10.271](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.271) - [Next: c10.273](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.273) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.272](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.272) · Pramāṇa