Crossword clues for sirdar
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 army.
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
n. an important person in India
Wikipedia
Sirdar a variant of Sardar, a long-standing rank in Western and Southern Asia – was assigned to the British Commander-in-Chief of the British-controlled Egyptian Army in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Sirdar resided at the Sirdaria, a three-block-long property in Zamalek which was also the home of British military intelligence in Egypt.
The first use of the word sardar or sirdar in English language is dated back to 1595. The original form of the word in Persian is "sardār" and this version is used in Hindi and Urdu languages as well, (Merriam Webster entry for the word sirdar.)
List of sirdars
from
to
Sir Evelyn Wood
align=right |1883
align=right |1885
Lord Grenfell
align=right |1885
align=right |1892
Lord Kitchener
align=right |1892
align=right |1899
Sir Reginald Wingate
align=right |1899
align=right |1916
Sir Lee Stack
align=right |1916
align=right |1924
Sir Charlton Spinks
align=right |1924
align=right |1937
Sirdar may refer to:
- Sir Dar, Markazi Province, Iran
- Sirdar-e Bala, Lorestan Province, Iran
- Sirdar-e Pain, Lorestan Province, Iran
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.