a supervisor or administrator in charge of a particular department or institution, especially in Indian government or organization systems.
From Urdu and Persian 'nāzir,' derived from Arabic 'nāẓir,' meaning 'one who watches or oversees.' The root 'nazar' means 'to look' or 'to oversee.'
The word 'nazir' comes from the same root as 'nazar,' which in some South Asian cultures means 'the evil eye'—the idea being that a supervisor watches everything! This word shows how English absorbs administrative vocabulary from the regions it interacts with.
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