sardar

[ ser-dahr ]

noun
  1. a variant of sirdar.

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How to use sardar in a sentence

  • Then at a signal from their sardar (leader), they bound Chandra Babu hand and foot and squatted round him in a circle.

    Tales of Bengal | S. B. Banerjea
  • The late sardar Lachman Singh will go down to posterity as a hero, because he knew how to die.

    The Wheel of Fortune | Mahatma Gandhi

British Dictionary definitions for sardar

sardar

sirdar

/ (səˈdɑː) /


noun(in India)
  1. a title used before the name of Sikh men

  2. a leader

Origin of sardar

1
Hindi, from Persian

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