khitmatgar

khitmatgar
noun /ˈkɪdmətɡɑː/
A male servant in India, with responsibility for waiting at table.

He did not know then that his khitmatgar had stopped by the roadside to get drunk, and would come on the next day saying that he had sprained his ankle.


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