出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/09/07 20:28 UTC 版)
From Persian مهتر (“prince, chief, elder, great personage”). Regarding the sense of a scavenger, Yule & Burnell (see References) state that the term was "applied to the class in question in irony, or rather in consolation".
mehtar (plural mehtars)