mehtar

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A ruler in certain princely states of the Northwest Frontier region. India,historical
  2. A sweeper or scavenger of low caste. India,historical

词形变化

mehtars plural

词汇关系

衍生词
mehtarship

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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