jemadars
jemadars is the plural of jemadar.
Meaning of jemadar
Noun
jemadar (plural jemadars)
- A former rank in the British Indian Army, the lowest rank for a viceroy's commissioned officer.
- Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted.1898 January, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, page 121
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