tehsildar
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Urdu تحصیل دار (taḥṣīl dār), from Persian تحصیلدار, from Arabic تَحْصِيل (taḥṣīl), and Persian دار (dâr).
Noun
tehsildar (plural tehsildars)
- An administrative officer in Pakistan and India who gathers taxes from a tehsil.
- 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 59:
- The next day Victor took an architect with him and got the tehsildar to join them.
Further reading
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tahseeldar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson , London: John Murray, , page 888.