sumjao
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hindi [Term?], an imperative verb form meaning "cause to know, warn, correct", usually with the implication of physical coercion.
Verb[edit]
sumjao
- (India, obsolete, transitive) To threaten or coerce.
- 1883, Hyderabad Affairs, volume 3, page 210:
- […] to double the number of the secretaries, so that one portion of them may do the work, while the other carry up papers to the Council and sumjao its members.
- 1912, The National Review, volume 59, page 607:
- He comes to sumjao the English and incidentally to crown the great work of his lifetime. Not, be it observed, to sumjao the Ministry or the Foreign Office. They are apparently quite tractable already.
References[edit]
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “sumjao”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].