مهتر

• مَهْتَار‎ (mahtār)

Borrowed from Persian مهتر‎ (mehtar, “a chief or an elder”)

مَهْتَر • (mahtar) m

1. prince

• Lane, Edward William (1863), “مهتر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “مهتر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
• Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes by Reinhart Dozy (d. 1883 CE) تكملة المعاجم العربية لرينهارت دوزي

From مه‎ (meh, “big, great”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”). Cognate to Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “big, large”).

مهتر • (mehtar) (plural مهتران‎ (mehtarân))

1. (archaic) a chief
2. (archaic) an elder

   ‏دولتمرد مهتر‎ ― dowlatmard-é mehtar ― elder statesman

• خرس مهتر‎ (“Big Dipper, a synonym for دب اکبر‎”)

• Arabic: مَهْتَر‏‎‎ (mahtar), مَهْتَار‎ (mahtār)
• Urdu: مہتر‎

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “مهتر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press