khansamahとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Urdu خانسامان‎, from خان‎ (“master”) +‎ سامان‎ (“household goods”).

名詞

khansamah (複数形 khansamahs)

1. (East India) A house-steward or native servant, being in charge of the kitchen and the food supplies.
   • 1866, Frederick F. Wyman, From Calcutta to the Snowy Range (page 330)

     An old sinner, in shape of a khansamah, is the genius of the place, and has rarely aught else to tempt the tired traveller with than a “sudden death”—a fowl caught running in the yard, and dished up forthwith; […]

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘My Own True Ghost Story’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society 2005, p. 105:

     The day shut in and the khansamah went to get me food.

別の表記

• kansama, kansamah, khansama, khansaman