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pattel

pattel is the obsolete form of patel.

Meaning of patel

Noun

patel (plural patels)

  1. (India, historical) A village head man.
    • In the troublous times which followed 1804, when the Maráthá power was waning, and every district almost was a scene of struggle for the supremacy, the patels everywhere came forward and boldly protected the villages, […]1892, Baden Henry Baden-Powell, The Land Systems of British India (book 3, page 464)

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Forms of pattel

pluralpattels

Questions about pattel

What is pattel the obsolete form of?
Pattel is the obsolete form of patel.

Words near pattel in the dictionary

  1. patted
  2. patted down
  3. patted on the back
  4. pattee
  5. Pattees
  6. pattel
  7. pattello
  8. pattelloes
  9. pattels
  10. pattemar
  11. pattemars

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