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Turkish commander
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sirdar
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Wikipedia
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Sirdar may refer to: Sir Dar , Markazi Province, Iran Sirdar-e Bala , Lorestan Province, Iran Sirdar-e Pain , Lorestan Province, Iran
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sirdar \Sir*dar"\, n. [Hind. & Per. sard[=a]r a chief, general; sar the head, top + d[=a]r holding, possessing.] A native chief in Hindostan; a headman. --Malcom. 2. In Turkey, Egypt, etc., a commander in chief, esp. the one commanding the Anglo-Egyptian ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A high-ranking person in India and other areas of west-central Asia; a chief, a headman. 2 The leader of a group of Sherpa mountain guides.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an important person in India
Usage examples of sirdar.
The information was telegraphed to the Sirdar, who at once ordered that a force of the friendly Arabs, escorted by a gunboat, should go up to Berber to find if the news was true.
January, the Sirdar learned that the Khalifa had changed his mind, and had sent peremptory orders to Mahmud to advance and drive the British out of Berber, and destroy the railway.
They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.
The jagheers, and all the property of sirdars and others who have been in arms against the British, shall be confiscated to the state.
The sirdar gave an order in the Pashtu tongue, and after a minute two Afridis appeared, dragging Lal Rai between them.
A guard was kept upon the frontier to prevent the return of refugees and the smuggling of ammunition, while General Kitchener, the brother of the Sirdar, broke up a few small Boer laagers in the neighbourhood of Lydenburg.