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circar

circar is the alternative spelling of sarkar.

Meaning of sarkar

Noun

sarkar (plural sarkars)

  1. (India, historical) An administrative unit used mostly in the Muslim states of South Asia.
  2. (India, historical) A clerk or accountant.
    • […] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English […]1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India, page 219
  3. (India) A native steward or housekeeper.
  4. (India) The Government, the State.
    • He said that Janoo had told him that there was an order of the Sirkar against magic, because it was feared that magic might one day kill the Empress of India.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “In the House of Suddhoo”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 99
  5. (India) Administration of a particular prime minister.
    • No doubt, a handful of people are immensely benefiting from the policies of the Modi Sarkar.2017, Taachal, What after Modi Sarkar?

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Forms of circar

pluralcircars

Questions about circar

What is circar the alternative spelling of?
Circar is the alternative spelling of sarkar.

Words near circar in the dictionary

  1. circalittoral
  2. circalunar
  3. circalunidian
  4. circannual
  5. circannually
  6. circar
  7. circars
  8. Circas
  9. circasemidian
  10. circaseptan
  11. Circassia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: circar (page history and authors); sarkar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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