英和和英

別の表記

• tahsildar, tahseeldar, tehseeldar, tusseeldar

語源

From Urdu تحصیل دار (taḥṣīl dār), from Persian تحصیلدار, from Arabic تَحْصِيل (taḥṣīl), and Persian دار (dâr).

名詞

tehsildar (plural tehsildars)

1. An administrative officer in Pakistan and India who gathers taxes from a tehsil.
   • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 59:

     The next day Victor took an architect with him and got the tehsildar to join them.

Further reading

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “tahseeldar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 888.

アナグラム

• hardliest, heraldist