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TALUKDAR
Definition of TALUKDAR
noun
An Indian landholder in the Mughal Empire and British Raj, responsible for collecting taxes from a taluk.
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Where it comes from
From Hindustani: Hindi तालुक़दार (tāluqdār), Urdu تالقدار (tāluqdār). Compare Sylheti ꠔꠣꠟꠥꠇꠖꠣꠞ (talukodar).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
44th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (24)
branch · 1.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TALUKDAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
First found by a player on Day 98, 26 August 2026.
Built from these letters
TALUKDAR starts with T and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AADKLRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start TALUKD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TALUKDAR?
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