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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of various Arabic or Islamic officials.
2. 2
   A former village headman in Bengal, through whom the government dealt with the peasants.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُقَدَّم (muqaddam). Doublet of Moghaddam.

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