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单词 harkara
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harkaran.

Brit. /hɑːˈkɑːrə/, /həːˈkɑːrə/, U.S. /hɑrˈkɑrə/, /hərˈkɑrə/, Indian English /hərˈkaːra/
Forms: 1700s ircara, hurcurrah, hircar, harcar, 1700s–1800s hircarra(h, -cara, 1800s harcar(r)ah, halcarrah, hurcaru, hurkorah, hurkaru, 1800s– harkara.
Etymology: Hindi, Urdu, etc. harkāra messenger, courier. N.E.D. (1898) enters this under the multiple headword hircarra, -ah, hurcaru and gives the pronunciation as (hɒɹkā·ră) /hɜːˈkɑːrə/.
East India.
An East Indian spy, messenger, or courier.
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1747 in W. Crooke Yule & Burnell's Hobson-Jobson (1903) 430/1 Given to the Ircaras for bringing news of the Engagement..4 3 0.
1748 in J. Long Unpub. Rec. (1869) 4 They were as far as Sundra Col, when first descried by their Hurcurrahs.
1757 in E. Ives Voy. to India (1773) 161 Hircars or spies.
1761 M. White in J. Long Unpub. Rec. (1869) 260 The head harcar returned, and told me this as well as several other secrets very useful to me.
1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 89/2 As the hircarrah came in a private manner, disguised, the President refused him an audience.
1803 Duke of Wellington in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 786 We depended for our intelligence of the enemy's position on the common hircarrahs of the country.
1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 37 I..took with me an Harcarrah, two guns..and a spear.
1834 Baboo I. vii. 118 A Hurkaru announced Nuwab Yoosuf Ulee Khan Buhadoor.
1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. vi. v. 690 Two friendly letters, the first brought by a camel-man, and the latter by hircarrahs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2022).
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