taluk

English

Alternative forms

• talook, talooka, taluka, taluq, taluqa, thaluk

Etymology

From Urdu تَعَلُّقَہ (ta'alluqa), from Arabic تَعَلُّق (taʕalluq).

Noun

taluk (plural taluks)

1. A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district.
   • 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 46:

     Suvarnapur, Ratnanagari, a few other native states, and seven or eight taluks were under his jurisdiction.

Synonyms

• tahsil
• tahasil
• tehsil

Further reading

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “talook”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 894.

Anagrams

• taklu, tulka