soucar

English

Noun

soucar (plural soucars)

1. (India, obsolete) A money dealer.
   • February 28 1785, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts

     When a soucar, that is a money dealer, becomes security for any native prince, the course is for the native prince to countersecure the money dealer, by making over to him in mortgage a portion of his territory

Alternative forms

• sahoukar, sahukar, sowcar