ressaldar
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Hindustani contraction रिसालदार (risāldār) / رسالدار (risāldār), from रिसालादार (risālādār) / رسالہ دار (risāla-dār), from Persian رسالهدار (resâle-dâr), from Arabic رِسَالَة (risāla) + Persian agent suffix دار (dâr).
Noun[edit]
ressaldar (plural ressaldars)
- The native captain of an Indian cavalry regiment.
- 1889, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West:
- Then up and spoke Mohammed Khan, the son of the Ressaldar:
"If ye know the track of the morning-mist, ye know where his pickets are. […]
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Further reading[edit]
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “ressaldar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 762.