Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See sircar.

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  • noun India A province or district.
  • noun India The Government, the State.
  • noun India A native house servant.

Etymologies

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From Urdu سركار, from Persian سر (sar, "head") + كار (kār, "agent, doer").

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Examples

  • If he had been done to death in the Khyber, the sirkar would have known it in a matter of hours.

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  • The sirkar knows how much of everything goes up the Khyber.

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  • No sirkar ever doubted less than she, and the suggestions in King's little homily did not please her.

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  • The sirkar sent him to see me dance, and he stayed to hear me talk.

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  • "D'you know, Princess, what has kept the sirkar from really believing in Khinjan Caves?"

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  • "But I heard say that the sirkar has offered pardons to all deserters who return."

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  • And the sirkar said at once that there was both cholera and bubonic plague, and he must go home!

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  • The arrficers the sirkar sent us are men of faith who have made no trouble with our women.

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  • And I have never neglected to tell the sirkar sufficient of what men have told me, to keep the sirkar pleased with me!

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  • A million dynamite bombs was a big haul for the sirkar!

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