bargirとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Hindi बरगीर (bargīr), from Persian بارگیر‎ (bārgīr, “baggage-horse”), from ‍بار‎ (bār, “load, burden, cargo”) + گیر‎ (gīr, “carrying”), the present stem of گرفتن‎ (gereftan).

名詞

bargir (複数形 bargirs)

1. (India, historical) A trooper of irregular cavalry who is (unlike a silladar) not the owner of his troop horse and arms, but either is put in by another person, perhaps a native officer in the regiment who takes part of his pay, or has his horse from the state he serves.

別の表記

• bargeer

Further reading

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell, William Crooke, editor (1903), “bargeer”, in Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, London: John Murray, […], page 69.