different between khidmutgar vs khitmatgar

English

Noun

khidmutgar (plural khidmutgars)

1. Alternative form of khitmatgar

English

Alternative forms

• khidmatgar, khidmutgar, khitmutgar, kitmagar, khitmagar, kitmuddar

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani ????????? / ???????? (xidmatg?r), from Classical Persian ???????? (xidmatg?r).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?dm?t???/

Noun

khitmatgar (plural khitmatgars)

1. (South Asia) A male servant, with responsibility for waiting at table.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 384:

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 94:

     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.

   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1108:

     ‘The Ambassador to Bangalore appeared before me dressed in the robes of a khitmagar or majordomo.’