tehsildar

== English == === Alternative forms === tahsildar, tahseeldar, tehseeldar, tusseeldar === Etymology === From Urdu تحصیل دار (taḥṣīl dār), from Persian تحصیلدار, from Arabic تَحْصِيل (taḥṣīl), and Persian دار (dâr). === Noun === tehsildar (plural tehsildars) An administrative officer in Pakistan and India who gathers taxes from a tehsil. === Further reading === Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “tahseeldar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 888. === Anagrams === hardliest, heraldist