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🧑 A male name 👨‍🌾 Village leader
mukhtar

mukhtar

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A male Arabic name meaning chosen
  • proper noun
  • /mʊkˈtɑr/
translation icon : Mukhtar
  • The local mukhtar organized a meeting to discuss improvements for the village.
  • Mr. Mukhtar
  • Mukhtar said
  • al-Mukhtar

So Ali's like you keep talking about this Mukhtar.

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Examples

  • The resistance in Cyrenaica was led by the legendary 'Umar al-Mukhtar until his capture and hanging in 1931.

    Academic text (2017)

  • After the storm, the mukhtar worked with villagers to restore damaged homes.

  • The sentence on you, Omar Mukhtar, is death by hanging in public.

    Lion Of The Desert (1981)

  • MUSSOLINI: What did Mukhtar do before the rebellion?

    Lion Of The Desert (1981)

  • Now, after Mukhtar was captured, what did Abu Ahmed do?

    Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

  • When he reached the village, he went first to the home of the mukhtar, Yakir Alhadef, a sharp, fat Bulgarian Jew with his thumbs permanently stuck in his belt.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • In our town, the mukhtar plays an important role in resolving community disputes.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Mukhtar as a name comes from the Arabic word mukhtār meaning 'chosen', from the verb ikhtara 'to choose'. So someone named mukhtar carries the meaning 'the chosen one' or 'selected'.