subadar
Americannoun
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a provincial governor of the Mogul empire.
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the chief Indian officer of a company of troops in the British Indian Army.
noun
Etymology
Origin of subadar
First recorded in 1665–75; from Urdu, from Persian, equivalent to ṣūba “province” + dār “holding, holder”
Example Sentences
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His subadar, Seetul Sing, became acquainted with Prethee Paul, tallookdar of Ramnuggur, who had been deprived of his estate for defalcation, and become associated with Maheput Sing.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William
Two officers, the subadar major, by name Mangol Singh, and three or four Sepoys ran forward from the second knoll, to help in carrying the wounded off.
From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston
I will quote, in concluding this discussion, the opinion of an old Gurkha subadar who had seen much fighting.
From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston
To gain all this useful information the most obviously complete method was to get inside the fort itself, and this the resourceful subadar determined to do.
From The Story of the Guides by Younghusband, G. J.
Malcolm had been detained nearly half an hour by some difficulty which a subadar had experienced in arranging the details of the night’s guard.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis
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