Urdu Dictionary

بخشي baḵẖshī rel. n. fr. baḵẖsh, q.v.

P بخشي baḵẖshī (rel. n. fr. baḵẖsh, q.v.), s.m. Paymaster (in Moham. armies); general, commander-in-chief (the office of paymaster being combined with that of general); an officer who kept an account of all disbursements connected with military tenures (as those of manṣabdārs and jāg̠īr-dārs);—collector of house-rents:—baḵẖshī-al-mamālik, s.m. Paymaster and commander-in-chief:—baḵẖshī-ḵẖāna, s.m. Pay-office, general's office:—baḵẖshī-garī, s.f. Office or duty of a general or commander-in-chief; generalship.