the officer in charge of the collection of revenues, etc, in a tahsil
Word origin
C18: via Hindi from Persian, from tahsil + Persian -dār having
tahsildar in American English
(təsilˈdɑːr)
noun
(in India)
a collector for, or official of, the revenue department
Also: tahseeldar
Word origin
[1790–1800; ‹ Urdu ‹ Pers, equiv. to tahṣīl collection (‹ Ar) + -dār agent suffix]This word is first recorded in the period 1790–1800. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cutout, idealism, infiltration, modular, silhouette