| 释义 |
‖ Seth India.|seɪt|
Also 8 seat, set.
[Hindī seṭh, Skr. sēṭha, said to be a corruption of çrēṣṭha best, chief; in meaning the mod. word corresponds to the Skr. derivative çrēṣṭhin.]
A leading Hindu merchant or banker.
1740in J. Long Select. Unpubl. Rec. Govt. (Ft. William) (1869) 9 (Y.) The Sets being all present at the Board inform us that [etc.]. 1772Dow Hist. Hindostan III. Diss. i. 109 The well-known bankers, the Jaggat Seats of Murshedabâd. 1880Growse Mathura (ed. 2) 15 The Seths..also advanced large sums of money for Government purposes on different occasions. 1884M. Thornhill Pers. Adv. Ind. Mutiny 79 The Seths held rank next to the sovereign princes. 1895Rep. Opium Commiss. VII. 319 Seth, or Sheth, or Sah, the honorific title of a Hindu merchant. |