"adigar" meaning in English

See adigar in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: adigars [plural], adhikar [alternative], adikar [alternative]
Etymology: From Sanskrit अधिकार (adhikāra, “one possessing authority”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|sa|कृ}}, {{der|en|sa|अधिकार||one possessing authority}} Sanskrit अधिकार (adhikāra, “one possessing authority”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} adigar (plural adigars)
  1. (India, historical) The head man of a rural village. Tags: India, historical
    Sense id: en-adigar-en-noun-Vax0O10~ Categories (other): Indian English
  2. (historical) The chief minister of the Kingdom of Kandy. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-adigar-en-noun-Dd4wlbyy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 7 93 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 95

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "कृ"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "अधिकार",
        "4": "",
        "5": "one possessing authority"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit अधिकार (adhikāra, “one possessing authority”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Sanskrit अधिकार (adhikāra, “one possessing authority”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "adigars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adhikar",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adikar",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "adigar (plural adigars)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The head man of a rural village."
      ],
      "id": "en-adigar-en-noun-Vax0O10~",
      "links": [
        [
          "head man",
          "head man"
        ],
        [
          "rural",
          "rural"
        ],
        [
          "village",
          "village"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, historical) The head man of a rural village."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The chief minister of the Kingdom of Kandy."
      ],
      "id": "en-adigar-en-noun-Dd4wlbyy",
      "links": [
        [
          "chief",
          "chief"
        ],
        [
          "minister",
          "minister"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) The chief minister of the Kingdom of Kandy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "adigar"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Sanskrit",
    "English terms derived from the Sanskrit root कृ",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "कृ"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "अधिकार",
        "4": "",
        "5": "one possessing authority"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit अधिकार (adhikāra, “one possessing authority”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Sanskrit अधिकार (adhikāra, “one possessing authority”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "adigars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adhikar",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adikar",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "adigar (plural adigars)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "Indian English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The head man of a rural village."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "head man",
          "head man"
        ],
        [
          "rural",
          "rural"
        ],
        [
          "village",
          "village"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, historical) The head man of a rural village."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The chief minister of the Kingdom of Kandy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chief",
          "chief"
        ],
        [
          "minister",
          "minister"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) The chief minister of the Kingdom of Kandy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "adigar"
}

Download raw JSONL data for adigar meaning in English (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.