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darughachi

darughachi noun: an official in the Mongol Empire responsible for the administration and taxation of a specific province or territory. They were essentially governors appointed by the Mongol Khan.

Noun

darughachi (plural darughachis)

  1. An official in the Mongol Empire responsible for the administration and taxation of a specific province or territory. They were essentially governors appointed by the Mongol Khan.
    • In December, 1231, the Korean capital Kaesong, northwest of the modern Seoul, had been taken by the Mongols, who placed the country under their protectorate with seventy-two darughachi to run it; but in the following year all these Mongol residents had been massacred by the order of the king of...1970, René Grousset, translated by Naomi Walford, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia, illustrated, reprint edition, Rutgers University Press, translation of original in French, page...

Forms of darughachi

pluraldarughachis

Origin of darughachi

Borrowed from Mongolian даругачи (darugači).

Questions about darughachi

What does darughachi mean?
Darughachi means an official in the Mongol Empire responsible for the administration and taxation of a specific province or territory. They were essentially governors appointed by the Mongol Khan.
What part of speech is darughachi?
Darughachi is a noun.
What is the plural of darughachi?
The plural of darughachi is darughachis.

Words near darughachi in the dictionary

  1. dartying
  2. Dartys
  3. Daru
  4. daruan
  5. Darug
  6. darughachi
  7. darughachis
  8. darughah
  9. darughahs
  10. Daruka
  11. daruma

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