munshi


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
munshi /ˈmuːnʃiː/ (also moonshee)
noun (pl. munshis) a secretary or language teacher in the Indian subcontinent.
– origin Pers. and Urdu munšī from Arab. munši' ‘writer, author’.
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