pykar
pykar noun: a broker dealing directly with a manufacturer of goods.
Noun
pykar (plural pykars)
- A broker dealing directly with a manufacturer of goods.
- There were also smaller dealers, known by the names of Pykars, resident throughout the country at large who made purchases and prepared the opium in their houses from 10 to 50 maunds, but the commodity thus received from the Pykars was never genuine.1892, Sir George Watt, A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India
- In Dacca before Plassey only 9 dalals and 11 pykars were permitted in the cloth trade. Any other person calling himself a dalal or a pykar was liable to be punished by Nawab's Daroga of Mulmul Khas Kuthee.1961, Narendra Krishna Sinha, The Economic History of Bengal
Forms of pykar
| plural | pykars |
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Origin of pykar
Borrowed from Bengali পাইকার (paikar), from Hindustani پیکار (pekār) / पैकार (paikār), from Classical Persian پای کار (pāy-kār).
Questions about pykar
- What does pykar mean?
- Pykar means a broker dealing directly with a manufacturer of goods.
- What part of speech is pykar?
- Pykar is a noun.
- What is the plural of pykar?
- The plural of pykar is pykars.
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