Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In India: The supreme authority; the government.
- noun The master; the head of a domestic establishment.
- noun A servant who keeps account of the household expenses and makes purchases for the family; a house-steward; in merchants' offices, a native accountant or clerk.
- noun A division of a province: used chiefly in the phrase the Northern Sircars, a former division of the Madras Presidency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A Hindoo clerk or accountant.
- noun India A district or province; a circar.
- noun India The government; the supreme authority of the state.
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- noun India A
Hindu clerk oraccountant . - noun India A
district orprovince ; acircar . - noun India The
government ; thesupreme authority of thestate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Calcutta the word was once generally applied to a native broker or head clerk in any business or private house, now usually known as sircar.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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He neither ascertained this matter by proofs, nor does he complete the balance of the sircar from the _jaidads_ of the balances: right or wrong, he is resolved to destroy our lives.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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From this reason, all the owers of balances refused to pay the _malwajib_ of the sircar.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Nabob to sign a receipt, in consequence of which they received, at two different times, near fifty thousand rupees, in the name of the officers of the adawlut, foujdarry, &c., from the Company's sircar; and having drawn up an account current in the manner they wished, they got the
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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The Moghuls provided darbar, maharajah, nawab, sircar, and other words, which for the sake of administration had to be coopted into the English language.
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"Yatibar Ali Khân," (Munny Begum's chief eunuch,) "from the amount of salaries of the officers of the adawlut and foujdarry, which before my arrival he had received for two months from the sircar, made disbursements according to his own pleasure.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
bilby commented on the word sircar
Also sarkar, sirkar.
August 22, 2022