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Sircar vs Sirdar - What's the difference?

sircar | sirdar |

As nouns the difference between sircar and sirdar

is that sircar is a Hindu clerk or accountant while sirdar is a high-ranking person in India and other areas of west-central Asia; a chief, a headman.

sircar

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (India) A Hindu clerk or accountant.
  • (India) A district or province; a circar.
  • (India) The government; the supreme authority of the state.
    • (Webster 1913)

    sirdar

    English

    (wikipedia sirdar)

    Noun

    (sirdars)
  • A high-ranking person in India and other areas of west-central Asia; a chief, a headman.
  • *1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 43:
  • *:Pottinger's guide, who turned out to be married to the daughter of the Sirdar , or headman, insisted on entering the village first, explaining that it was customary with strangers in this dangerous region.
  • The leader of a group of Sherpa mountain guides.