| 释义 |
‖ goˈmashta Indian.
Also 8–9 gomastah.
[Hindustani, a. Pers. gamāshtah ‘appointed, delegated’.]
A native agent or factor, a clerk for native correspondence.
1747MS. in Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson s.v., Goa Masters. 1758in Vansittart Narr. Trans. in Bengal (1766) I. 26 There is a complaint lodged against an English gomastah. 1776Trial of Nundocomar 77/1, I was his chief gomastah: I used to superintend his other gomastahs. 1837Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 136 The Rajah's Gomashta stood by, to order her about. |