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noun
A ruler in certain princely states of the Northwest Frontier region.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, historical
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noun
A sweeper or scavenger of low caste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, historical
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History
From Persian مهتر (“prince, chief, elder, great personage”). Regarding the sense of a scavenger, Yule & Burnell (see References) state that the term was "applied to the class in question in irony, or rather in consolation".
