Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9343
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9343
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MEERASS, s., MEERASSY, adj., MEERASSIDAR, s. ‘Inheritance,’ ‘hereditary,’ ‘a holder of hereditary property.’ Hind. from Arab. mīrāṣ, mīrāṣī, mīrāṣdār; and these from waris, ‘to inherit.’