mudir
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of mudir
C19: via Turkish, from Arabic, from adāra to administrate
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Mehemet Ali was said to have appointed as mudir or governor in a turbulent district a young and inexperienced Turk, who asked, “But how am I to govern these people?”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
But the mudir himself is not such a blockhead but that he realizes the mistake he has made.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens
Just beyond Koehne, the roads fork, and the mudir kindly sends a mounted zaptieh to guide me aright, for fear I shouldn't quite understand by his pantomimic explanations.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens
They found some fifty families of Cretan refugees established at Ain Shahat and a mudir with a small guard on the spot: but no inhabited houses, except the Senussi convent and the mudiria.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
April 19:—In an hour and a half we arrived at the White Nile, and twenty minutes later we saw three vessels belonging to the mudir, or governor, of Fashoda.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
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