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daroga

daroga noun: a police official in the Mughal Empire and the British Raj.

Noun

daroga (plural darogas)

  1. (historical) A police official in the Mughal Empire and the British Raj.

daroga meaning in Bengali

daroga in Bengali

daroga
দারোগা darōga

Forms of daroga

pluraldarogas
alternative formdarogha
alternative formdaroghah

Origin of daroga

Ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠬ᠎ᠠ (darug-a).

Questions about daroga

What does daroga mean?
Daroga means a police official in the Mughal Empire and the British Raj.
What is daroga in Bengali?
Daroga in Bengali is দারোগা (darōga). See Daroga meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is daroga?
Daroga is a noun.
What is the plural of daroga?
The plural of daroga is darogas.

Words near daroga in the dictionary

  1. Darnétal
  2. Daro
  3. Darocha
  4. Darochas
  5. darodipine
  6. daroga
  7. darogas
  8. darogha
  9. daroghah
  10. daroghahs
  11. daroghas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: daroga (page history and authors); দারোগা (Bengali) (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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