sircar

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Hindi and Persian سرکار‎ (sarkār, “superintendent, overseer, chief”).

Noun

sircar (plural sircars)

  1. (India) A Hindu clerk or accountant.
  2. (India) A district or province; a circar.
  3. (India) The government; the supreme authority of the state.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sircar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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