| 单词 |
lambardar |
| 释义 |
‖ lambardar|læmbəˈdɑː(r)|
Also lambadar, lumberdar, etc.
[Urdū lambardār, f. Eng. number + Urdū (Pers.) -dār suffix.]
The registered head-man of an Indian village.
1855H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judic. & Rev. Terms, Lambardar, Lumburdar, The cultivator who,..pays the government dues and is registered in the collector's roll according to his number. 1858J. B. Norton Topics 193 The moral control of head men and lumberdars is destroyed. 1900M. C. Wilson Irene Petrie xii. 284 The doctors operated successfully on the wife of the lumbardar—that is the hereditary taxgatherer, the headman of the village. 1908New Reformer (Madras) II. 68 Securing the co-operation of the literate among them and the Lambardars to bring about sanitary reforms, etc. 1920Glasgow Herald 12 Jan. 9/6 At one village the Lambardar was obstructive, would give no information, and refused to accompany him. 1960J. Masters Venus of Konpara xxiii. 177 Our lambardar thinks she [sc. a tigress] has not started to eat yet. 1971R. Dentry Encounter at Kharmel iii. 46, I am not the Wazir... I am only the Lambadar, Raza Khan. Ibid. 48 Lambadar is honorific. I am Mayor, you see? |
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