burkundaz
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Hindi बरक़ंदाज़ (barqandāz), from Persian برق انداز (barq-andâz, literally “lightning-thrower”).
Noun
editburkundaz (plural burkundazes)
- (India, now historical) An armed guard or watchman.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 90:
- But unlike such forts as Chunar and Buxar […], the Carcanna was anything but a picturesque ruin: its turrets housed squads of sentries, and its parapets were manned by a great number of peons and burkundazes.
Further reading
edit- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “burkundauze”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 130.
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