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单词 gomashta
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gomashtan.

Forms: Also 1700s–1800s gomastah.
Etymology: Hindustani, < Persian gamāshtah ‘appointed, delegated’.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: goˈmashta.
Indian.
A native agent or factor, a clerk for native correspondence.
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1747 in H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) (at cited word) Goa Masters.
1758 in Vansittart Narr. Trans. Bengal 1760–4 (1766) I. 26 There is a complaint lodged against an English gomastah.
1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 77/1 I was his chief gomastah: I used to superintend his other gomastahs.
1837 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 136 The Rajah's Gomashta stood by, to order her about.
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