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‖ khansamah, -saman East Ind.|ˈkaːnsamaː(n, kanˈsaːma(n|
Forms: 7 consaorman, 8 chan-, caun-sumaun, consumma, -sumah, (9 -somah), 8–9 khansaman, 9 khaunsaumaun, khansama(h, kansamah.
[Urdū (Pers.) khānsāmān, f. khān master, ruler, khan1 + sāmān household goods.]
In India: A house-steward; a native male servant (usually a Muslim), the head of the kitchen and pantry department.
c1645Howell Lett. i. xxviii. (1705) 39, I met with Camillo your Consaorman here lately. 1759in R. O. Cambridge War in India (1761) 231 Order, under the Chan Sumaun, or Steward's seal. Ibid. 232 Caun Samaun, or Steward to his Majesty. 1776Trial Joseph Fowke 6/1, I put the arzee under the care of the Consumma. 1788F. Gladwin tr. Mem. Kh. Abdulkurreem 56 [He] asked the Khansaman, what quantity was remaining of the clothes. 1813–14Mrs. Sherwood Lit. Henry & Bearer 7 His mamma's khaunsaumaun had told him so. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 116 The khansama, or butler, acts the part which, in a moderate English establishment, is acted by the mistress and the cook together. |