Talk:Sirdar

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Sirdar is also a popular brand of knitting yarn in the UK http://www.sirdar.co.uk/ Should this be included in some way? Claudine McClean 14:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The "Sirdar (company)" article should be written. Quite notable. Thanks for pointing it out. mikka (t) 21:41, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

I propose that Sirdar be merged into Sardar. The words are closely related cognates (Sirdar is Sanskrit, Sardar is Old Persian) indicating precisely the same concept - a head/chief of an Army.

I think that the content in the Sirdar article can easily be explained in the context of Sardar (which is more detailed)Bangalorebar (talk) 07:25, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the above proposal. This word too old to be Arabic, it is a Persian word. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.255.40.219 (talk) 02:20, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, they do appear to be the same word. Farsi (Persian) script shows it written as seerdar or even omits the first vowel altogether. Vowel sounds tend to vary region by region, as indeed they do in English. 51.9.38.164 (talk) 18:39, 31 December 2020 (UTC) Accipitus.[reply]

Sirdar

There is another title Sirdar سِردار meaning keeper of secrets. This is preserved in the last entry for this term in the Steingass Persian dictionary for Sirr-dar and was the title of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. He translated his own title as that: a confident or literally keeper of secrets. (Sirr: secret). http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=steingass&query=%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1&matchtype=exact&display=utf8 --Wool Bridge (talk) 20:57, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]