chokra

English edit

chokra (plural chokras)

(India) Boy; young male servant.
- 1934, George Orwell, chapter 21, in Burmese Days‎^[1]:
  At the foot of the veranda a chokra lay on his back in the sun, pulling the punkah rope with his heel and shading his face with a broad strip of banana leaf.
- 1990, Khushwant Singh, chapter 16, in Delhi, Penguin:
  'Livin' is cheaper here,' he said. Back home we won't have an ayah or chokra.'