purvoe
English
Etymology
Related to Prabhu.
Noun
purvoe (plural purvoes)
- (India, obsolete) A Hindu clerk.
- 1843, Transactions of the Agri-horticultural Society of Western India (page 2)
- […] not one-third of the work was done under the direction of the Garden Purvoe and Head Malley only, […]
- 1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India (page 219)
- […] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English […]
- 1843, Transactions of the Agri-horticultural Society of Western India (page 2)
Alternative forms
- purvo