[Urdū (prop. Arab.) sāmil, operator, agent, spec. ‘revenue-collector,’ agent-noun f. Arab. samala to act, perform an office.] A native collector of revenue in India; also called amaldar, AMILDAR.
1800. Wellington, in Wellesley, Disp., 200. He had repeatedly applied … for the necessary purwannahs to your several aumils.
1808. Cobbett’s Weekly Pol. Reg., XII. 1006. They soon find themselves beset with new aumils and peculators.
Hence (by confusion of aumil and amaldār): Aumildar (with same sense).
1778. Orme, Brit. Mil. Trans. (1803), III. 496. Frauds in the management of the aumildar or renter.
1799. Wellington, in Wellesley, Disp., 772. To sell the office of aumildar.
