jemadar

plural jemadars · alternative jamadar · alternative jemautdar · alternative jemidar · alternative jemutdar · alternative jummahdar

1. 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 28, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, page 121