woordie majorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Uncertain. Yule states: "Both the rationale of the compound title, and the etymology of wardī, are obscure. Platts gives Hind. wardī or urdī, 'uniform of a soldier, badge or dress of office,' as the first part of the compound, with a questionable Skt. etymology, viruda, 'crying, proclaiming, a panegyric.' But there is also Ar. wird, 'a flight of birds,' and then also 'a troop or squadron,' which is perhaps as probable. Others, again, as many military titles have come from S. India, connect it with Can. varadi, 'news, an order.'"

名詞

woordie major (複数形 woordie majors)

1. (India, military, obsolete) A native adjutant in regiments of Indian irregular cavalry.

別の表記

• wurdee major

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell, William Crooke, editor (1903), “woordie major”, in Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, London: John Murray, […]. (as WOORDY-MAJOR)