Meanings
- IndiaobsoletetransitiveTo threaten or coerce.
[…] to double the number of the secretaries, so that one portion of them may do the work, while the other carry up papers to the Council and sumjao its members.
1883, Hyderabad Affairs, volume 3, page 2101 more example
He comes to sumjao the English and incidentally to crown the great work of his lifetime. Not, be it observed, to sumjao the Ministry or the Foreign Office. They are apparently quite tractable already.
1912, The National Review, volume 59, page 607
Origin
- Hindi[Term?]
- Englishsumjao
From Hindi [Term?], an imperative verb form meaning "cause to know, warn, correct", usually with the implication of physical coercion.
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