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Jemadar

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Noun
  1. 1
    A former rank in the British Indian Army, the lowest rank for a viceroy's commissioned officer.

    "Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted."

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu جمعدار (jamadār), from Persian جمعدار (jam'-dār), from Arabic جَمْع (jamʕ, “gathering”) + Persian ـدار (-dār, “bearer”).

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