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polygar

polygar is the alternative form of poligar.

Meaning of poligar

Noun

poligar (plural poligars)

  1. (historical) A territorial administrative and military governor appointed by the Nayaka rulers of South India during the 16th–18th centuries.
    • But there were villages where several poligars resided, and from which the poligars extended their jurisdiction.1996, Kaoru Sugihara, Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives

Forms of polygar

pluralpolygars

Phrases with polygar

Questions about polygar

What is polygar the alternative form of?
Polygar is the alternative form of poligar.

Words near polygar in the dictionary

  1. polygamous
  2. polygamously
  3. polygams
  4. polygamy
  5. polyganglionic
  6. polygar
  7. polygar dog
  8. polygar dogs
  9. polygars
  10. polygasoline
  11. polygasolines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polygar (page history and authors); poligar (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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