Chaudhary

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Chaudhary is an honorific title commonly used in parts of South Asia to denote a person of social standing, leadership, or landowning status.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Chaudhary canonical 4
"चौधरी" in Devanagari 1
Chaudhari 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf family name
honorific title
surname
associatedWith agrarian communities
landowning groups
denotes community leader
landowner
person of social standing
tax-collecting official
village headman
etymologyFrom Prakrit chaudhari
Sanskrit caturdhara
genderUsage primarily male title
hasLanguage Bengali
Bhojpuri
Haryanvi
Hindi
Nepali
Punjabi
linked to: Punjabi language

Rajasthani
Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
hasVariant Chaudhari
linked to: Chaudhary

Chaudhry
Chaudhuri
linked to: Choudhury

Chowdary
Chowdhari
Chowdhary
linked to: Chaudhary

Chowdhry
linked to: Chaudhry

Chowdhuri
linked to: Choudhury

Chowdhury
linked to: Choudhury

Chowdury
linked to: Choudhury
historicalRole intermediary between state and peasants
revenue collector under various South Asian polities
scriptForm "چوہدری" in Urdu script
linked to: Chaudhry

"चौधरी" in Devanagari
linked to: Chaudhary

"চৌধুরী" in Bengali script
usedAs clan name
hereditary title
personal surname
title of respect
usedByCommunity Gujjar communities
linked to: Gujjars

Jat communities
linked to: Jats

Rajput communities
Yadav communities
various OBC groups in North India
usedInRegion Afghanistan
Bangladesh
India
Nepal
Pakistan

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chaudhary Devi Lal familyName Chaudhary
Chaudhary hasVariant Chowdhary
linked to: Chaudhary
Chaudhary hasVariant Chaudhari
linked to: Chaudhary
Chaudhary scriptForm "चौधरी" in Devanagari
linked to: Chaudhary