parganaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Urdu پرگنة‎ (Hindi परगना (paragnā)), of uncertain origin.

名詞

pargana (複数形 parganas)

1. (India) An administrative unit of India, consisting of a number of villages. [from 17th c.] Since Indian independence, replaced by the block or tahsil.
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 165

     ‘I shall advise His Highness to sanction at least a high school in the capital, and if possible another in each pargana.’

   • 2017, Times of India, 20 April

     Many in the BJP, especially tribal leaders from the Santhal Pargana, blamed the crushing defeat against JMM on the CM's organisational skills.

アナグラム

• Angrapa