مهتر

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• مِهْتَار (mihtār), مَهْتَار (mahtār)

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

مَهْتَر or مِهْتَر • (mahtar or mihtar) m

1. prince

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مهتر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 620
• Quatremère, Étienne Marc (1837) Histoire des sultans mamlouks, de l'Égypte. Tome premier, première partie.‎ (in French), Paris: Oriental Translation Fund, page 162
• Quatremère, Étienne Marc (1837) Histoire des sultans mamlouks, de l'Égypte. Tome premier, première partie.‎ (in French), Paris: Oriental Translation Fund, page 120
• Quatremère, Étienne Marc (1837) Histoire des sultans mamlouks, de l'Égypte. Tome premier, première partie.‎ (in French), Paris: Oriental Translation Fund, page 173

From مه (meh, “big, great”) +‎ ـتر (-tar).

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

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

   دولتمرد مهتر ― dowlatmard-e mehtar ― elder statesman

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

• Arabic: مِهْتَر (mihtar), مَهْتَر (mahtar), مِهْتَار (mihtār), مَهْتَار (mahtār)
• Urdu: مہتر (mehtar)

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