sirkar
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Urdu سرکار (sirkār), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian سرکار (sarkār), compound of سر (sar, “head”) + کار (kār, “agent, doer”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sirkar (plural sirkars)
- (India) A province or district.
- (India) The Government, the State.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘In the House of Suddhoo’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 99:
- He said that Janoo had told him that there was an order of the Sirkar against magic, because it was feared that magic might one day kill the Empress of India.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘In the House of Suddhoo’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 99:
- (India) A native house servant.