Etymology

bargir

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Today it means: A trooper of irregular cavalry who is (unlike a silladar) not the owner of his troop horse and arms, but either is put in by another person, perhaps a native officer in the regiment who takes part of his pay, or has his horse from the state he serves. Full definition →

Hindi बरगीर ← Persian بارگیر
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  1. Persian · derived fromبارگیر“baggage-horse”
  2. Hindi · borrowed fromबरगीर
  3. English todaybargir

Borrowed from Hindi बरगीर (bargīr), from Persian بارگیر (bârgir, “baggage-horse”), from بار (bâr, “load, burden, cargo”) + گیر (gir, “carrying”), the present stem of گرفتن (gereftan).

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