tehsildar
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Urdu [Term?], 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 2014, p. 59:
- The next day Victor took an architect with him and got the tehsildar to join them.
- 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 59:
Further reading
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “tahseeldar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 888.
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