mehtarとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Persian مهتر (“prince, chief, elder, great personage”). Regarding the sense of a scavenger, Yule & Burnell (see References) state that the term was "applied to the class in question in irony, or rather in consolation".

名詞

mehtar (plural mehtars)

1. (India, historical) A ruler in certain princely states of the Northwest Frontier region.
2. (India, historical) A sweeper or scavenger of low caste.

派生語

参照

• Henry Yule; Arthur Burnell (1903), Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases