Thakur

[tah-koor]

noun

1. chief or master (used as a term of respectful address among the Kshatriya caste in India).

Word History and Origins

Origin of Thakur¹

1790–1800; < Hindi ṭhākur master, chief < Prakrit ṭhākkura village headman < Sanskrit: a title

Example Sentences

Fast bowler Renuka Singh Thakur lost her father Kehar Singh Thakur in 1999 when she was three years old.

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Thakur first played cricket in the lanes of her village and later moved to the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association's residential academy in Dharamshala - one of the first residential facilities for women cricketers in the country.

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Beaumont's form remains a concern but she and Jones negotiated the new-ball threat of returning seamer Renuka Singh Thakur to reach 73-0 before the former was bowled attempting a sweep off the indefatigable Deepti, and Jones was frustratingly caught at mid-wicket to unite Sciver-Brunt with her predecessor.

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"Many poor patients turn to local chemists for advice, assuming the person behind the counter is a pharmacist; in 10 out of 10 times in rural India, that is a wrong assumption," says Dinesh Thakur, a former Indian drug executive-turned-public health expert.

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And the BJP has strongly denied these allegations, with leader Anurag Thakur saying the Congress and the opposition had come together to make these "baseless claims" because they were anticipating a loss in Bihar.

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