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mudir

/ muːˈdɪə /

noun

  1. a local governor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mudir1

C19: via Turkish, from Arabic, from adāra to administrate
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Example Sentences

North Korea had won 1-0 against a Yemen team including Mudir Al Radaei.

They found some fifty families of Cretan refugees established at Ain Shahat and a mudir with a small guard on the spot: but no inhabited houses, except the Senussi convent and the mudiria.

Then the Mudir sent a messenger to ask the Prince and Mr. Clarke to join us.

Meantime the most amusing part of our down-river voyage occurred at Assiout, where the steamer anchored, and where we spent the afternoon with the Mudir Choucry Pasha and dined with him in the evening.

Mudir, mōō′dēr, n. governor of an Egyptian province.

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