khitmagar
English
Noun
khitmagar (plural khitmagars)
- Alternative form of khitmatgar
- 1846, John Mercier MacMullen, Camp and barrack-room:
- A khitmagar saw him ascend the ladder, and suspecting something was stolen, awakened the engineer, who on searching became aware of the particular articles he had lost.
- 1912, Sir Anthony Dickson Home, Charles Henderson Melville, Service Memories, page 112:
- One great and quite unexpected satisfaction came to me soon after daybreak—the sight of my khitmagar bringing food, of which indispensable I had tasted none for a whole day, nor had I had a sight of him for that time.
- 2010, Allan Mallinson, A Call To Arms, →ISBN, page 309:
- He pulled a bell rope for the khitmagar (he hated the practice of clapping or shouting).
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