单词 | lashkar |
释义 | lashkarn. Indian. †(a) A camp of native Indian soldiers. Obsolete. (b) A body of Afridi soldiers. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > [noun] > Indian lashkar1616 jatha1922 1616 Sir T. Roe in S. Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 559 I tooke horse to auoyd presse and other inconuenience and crossed out of the Leskar before him. 1625 E. Terry in S. Purchas Pilgrims (1625) II. ix. vi. 1481 There being no lesse then two hundred thousand men, women, and children in this Leskar, or Campe. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 32 Normall his Queene..had passed safely ouer the Riuer, with most part of the Lescar, or Army, which shee immediatly put into Battaglia. 1897 Times 6 Oct. 3/1 The lashkar is prepared to offer terms on behalf of the Afridi, Mamund, and Malakand tribesmen. 1908 Daily Chron. 27 Apr. 1/7 General Willcock's columns yesterday searched out the enemy's lashkars. 1924 Glasgow Her. 14 May 8 The rebel lashkars are melting away. 1955 Times 31 May 7/6 Inside this frame, lashkars, or tribal columns, are still raised occasionally. 1973 Times 22 Mar. (Pakistan Suppl.) p. ii/3 Baluchistan..is led largely by tribes amenable only to the jurisdiction of their own sardars..who often command sizeable lashkars, or private levies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1616 |
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