Shikari
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Etymology


From / / शिकारी (šikārī) < (šekāri) ‘of hunting’, from (šekār) ‘hunting, game’.

Noun



  1. a hunter or tracker, especially in the Indian subcontinent
    • 1903: ‘I wonder that my very simple stratagem could deceive so old a shikari,’ said Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Empty House’ (Norton 2005, p.807)
 
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