mehtar

词形变化

mehtars 复数 mehtars

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A ruler in certain princely states of the Northwest Frontier region.

    印度 历史
  2. 2.

    A sweeper or scavenger of low caste.

    印度 历史

词源

From Persian مهتر (“prince, chief, elder, great personage”). Regarding the sense of a scavenger, Yule & Burnell (see References) state that the term was "applied to the class in question in irony, or rather in consolation".

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