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مُوَكِّل
principal (the person on whose behalf an agent or lawyer acts) /muˈwak.kil/
nounB1#2913 most common
Also: client (in a legal power-of-attorney sense), grantor of power of attorney
Example sentences
هذا هو المُوَكِّل.
This is the principal.
المحامي يتحدث مع مُوَكِّله.
The lawyer is talking with his client.
وقّع المُوَكِّل على عقد التوكيل أمام المحامي.
The principal signed the power-of-attorney contract in front of the lawyer.
يجب على المحامي أن يلتزم بتعليمات مُوَكِّله في القضية.
The lawyer must follow his principal's instructions in the case.
لا يجوز للوكيل أن يتصرف خارج الصلاحيات التي منحه إياها المُوَكِّل في عقد الوكالة.
The agent may not act beyond the powers the principal granted him in the agency contract.
نصّت المحكمة على أن تصرفات الوكيل تُلزم المُوَكِّل ما دام يعمل في حدود التوكيل الممنوح له، وإلا وقع العقد باطلاً بحق الغير.
The court ruled that the agent's actions bind the principal as long as he acts within the granted power of attorney; otherwise the contract is void with respect to third parties.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُوَكِّلٌ | مُوَكِّلونَ |
| Genitive | مُوَكِّلٍ | مُوَكِّلينَ |
| Accusative | مُوَكِّلاً | مُوَكِّلينَ |
| Vocative | يا مُوَكِّلُ | يا مُوَكِّلونَ |
Word family
وكيلagent, attorney, deputy (the one appointed)
وكّلto appoint someone as an agent, to grant power of attorney
توكيلpower of attorney, authorization document
وكالةagency, the relationship of representation
موكَّلthe one appointed as agent (passive participle, sometimes used for the attorney)
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root w-k-l, which carries the sense of trusting, relying on, or delegating a task to someone. The Form II verb wakkala means to appoint someone as one's agent or to grant them power of attorney. Muwakkil is the active participle of that verb, so it literally denotes the one who does the appointing, the person who hands authority to an agent rather than the agent itself.
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