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单词 mehmandar
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mehmandarn.

Brit. /ˈmeɪməndɑː/, U.S. /ˈmeɪm(ə)nˌdɑr/
Forms: 1600s mahmendar, 1600s mamendar, 1600s mammandar, 1600s mammandore, 1600s mehemandar, 1600s mehemander, 1600s mehemender, 1600s mehmander, 1800s– mehmandar, 1800s– mehmandaur.
Origin: A borrowing from Persian. Etymon: Persian mihmāndār.
Etymology: < Persian mihmāndār host, hospitable man < mihmān guest, stranger + -dār -dar suffix. Compare French mehemandar (1659 in the source translated in quot. 1662, itself translating a German source (1656), which has mehmandar).
Now historical.
In Persian-speaking countries and South Asia: an official appointed to act as courier to an important traveller. Also as a title.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > plan or scheme of travel > courier
courier?1589
mehmandar1623
1623 State Papers (Colonial, E. Indies) 1622–4 (1878) 161 Our mehmander or presenter.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 51 Our Mammandore or Harbinger, prouiding for vs.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 132 Our Ambassadour..sent his Mammandar to the Governour..to demand fresh horses.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 369 The Mehemandar, who conducts Ambassadors from one Province to another till they come to Court.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 103 The Mahmendar Bassa, Master of the Ceremonies.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul Introd. 22 The necessity..of waiting for a Mehmandaur from His Majesty, to accompany the mission.
1840 J. B. Fraser Trav. Koordistan I. vi. 172 A dispute between our mehmandar and the villagers regarding a supply of corn for our horses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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