duftern.

Brit.

/ˈdʌftə/, U.S.

/ˈdəftər/

Forms: 1700s– duftar, 1700s– dufter, 1700s– duftur (now rare), 1800s– daftar.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Urdu. Partly a borrowing from Persian. Etymons: Urdu daftar; Persian daftar.

Etymology: < (i) Urdu daftar collection of documents tied together in a cloth, record, list, also record office, archive, business office, and its etymon (ii) Persian daftar register, account book, collection of documents tied together, office (Middle Persian (late) daftar register, account book), ultimately < ancient Greek διϕθέρα skin, hide (also as writing material) (see diphtheritis n.), probably via Arabic daftar writing book, account, register (also diftar ). With sense 2 compare Urdu daftar ḵāna and its etymon Persian daftar ḵāna record office, counting house, lit. ‘record house’ (compare quot. c1757 at sense 2).

South Asian. Now chiefly historical.

1. A collection of official documents, esp. when tied or bound together.

ΚΠ

1626 R. Young Let. 4 Mar. in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 127 [The business of Willoughby regarding] the dufter..of Sada-cann [i.e. Sadr Khan].

1776 Depositions 18/1 in Trial J. Fowke The said Kialanders entered false records in the Duftur.

1844 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 13 ii. 584 In the Dufter it is entered as a Circar of Beejapoor, including 16 Mahals.

1905 Great Baroda Case 539 Some clerk who had been told to obliterate Salim's name from the duftur.

2014 Jrnl. Africana Relig. 2 305 The sultan sent another communiqué to the judge in which he supported the plaintiff's case by citing the dufter, or records, of the Khōjā community.

2. An office where documents are kept; (more generally) any business office.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > office > [noun]

counterc1386

officec1405

counting-house?1608

kutcheri1610

bureau1702

counting-room1712

dufter1791

cabin1979

society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept

registery1483

chancery1523

registry1531

cartuary1539

cartulary?1541

arches1626

archive1645

record office1647

tabulary1656

registry office1720

registrature1762

dufter1791

records department1825

PRO1892

morgue1914

c1757 Let. in H. Verelst View Eng. Govt. Bengal App. 147 That they deliver the accounts of their Zemindarry agreeable to the stated forms every year into the Dufter Cana of the Sircar.]

1791 C. W. Rouse-Boughton Diss. Landed Prop. Bengal 236 The Dewan, or Roy-Royan, directed the officers of the Dufter to draw out a Ferd Sawal, or application, at the bottom of which a copy of the petition was inserted.

1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1844) I. 761 I refer you to the papers upon this subject, which you will doubtless find in the dufter.

1817 M. Wilks Hist. Sketches S. India II. xxv. 33 The business of the treasury was conducted in two dufters or departments.

1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (ed. 2) 47 Was there no room..for docket, duftar, and for office drudge?

1914 M. Diver Judgment of Sword 251 The 16th found him still sitting in his familiar dufter, still awaiting provisions and transport.

2008 A. Ghosh Sea of Poppies (2009) x. 212 As he stepped past the tall mahogany doors of Mr Burnham's Dufter, it seemed to Baboo Nob Kissin that he had left the heat of Calcutta behind.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dufter
释义	duftern. Brit. /ˈdʌftə/, U.S. /ˈdəftər/ Forms: 1700s– duftar, 1700s– dufter, 1700s– duftur (now rare), 1800s– daftar. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Urdu. Partly a borrowing from Persian. Etymons: Urdu daftar; Persian daftar. Etymology: < (i) Urdu daftar collection of documents tied together in a cloth, record, list, also record office, archive, business office, and its etymon (ii) Persian daftar register, account book, collection of documents tied together, office (Middle Persian (late) daftar register, account book), ultimately < ancient Greek διϕθέρα skin, hide (also as writing material) (see diphtheritis n.), probably via Arabic daftar writing book, account, register (also diftar ). With sense 2 compare Urdu daftar ḵāna and its etymon Persian daftar ḵāna record office, counting house, lit. ‘record house’ (compare quot. c1757 at sense 2). South Asian. Now chiefly historical. 1. A collection of official documents, esp. when tied or bound together. ΚΠ 1626 R. Young Let. 4 Mar. in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 127 [The business of Willoughby regarding] the dufter..of Sada-cann [i.e. Sadr Khan]. 1776 Depositions 18/1 in Trial J. Fowke The said Kialanders entered false records in the Duftur. 1844 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 13 ii. 584 In the Dufter it is entered as a Circar of Beejapoor, including 16 Mahals. 1905 Great Baroda Case 539 Some clerk who had been told to obliterate Salim's name from the duftur. 2014 Jrnl. Africana Relig. 2 305 The sultan sent another communiqué to the judge in which he supported the plaintiff's case by citing the dufter, or records, of the Khōjā community. 2. An office where documents are kept; (more generally) any business office. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > office > [noun] counterc1386 officec1405 counting-house?1608 kutcheri1610 bureau1702 counting-room1712 dufter1791 cabin1979 society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept registery1483 chancery1523 registry1531 cartuary1539 Register House1540 cartulary?1541 arches1626 register office1641 archive1645 record office1647 tabulary1656 registry office1720 registrature1762 dufter1791 records department1825 PRO1892 morgue1914 c1757 Let. in H. Verelst View Eng. Govt. Bengal App. 147 That they deliver the accounts of their Zemindarry agreeable to the stated forms every year into the Dufter Cana of the Sircar.] 1791 C. W. Rouse-Boughton Diss. Landed Prop. Bengal 236 The Dewan, or Roy-Royan, directed the officers of the Dufter to draw out a Ferd Sawal, or application, at the bottom of which a copy of the petition was inserted. 1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1844) I. 761 I refer you to the papers upon this subject, which you will doubtless find in the dufter. 1817 M. Wilks Hist. Sketches S. India II. xxv. 33 The business of the treasury was conducted in two dufters or departments. 1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (ed. 2) 47 Was there no room..for docket, duftar, and for office drudge? 1914 M. Diver Judgment of Sword 251 The 16th found him still sitting in his familiar dufter, still awaiting provisions and transport. 2008 A. Ghosh Sea of Poppies (2009) x. 212 As he stepped past the tall mahogany doors of Mr Burnham's Dufter, it seemed to Baboo Nob Kissin that he had left the heat of Calcutta behind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1626
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