সরদার
sordar
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
বিশেষ্য / noun
Lexical status
Community role noun; care and training authority is established by these accounts, not by the general dictionary definition.
Recorded forms
সরদারের কাছে; সরদার মিটিয়ে দেয়; সরদাররে; সরদারের সাথে; সরদার রাজি হলে
Research meaning — English
A community leader named as a first contact when someone has a mental-health problem, as someone who settles disputes, and as a person consulted before training participation.
Research meaning — Bengali
একজনের মানসিক সমস্যা হলে প্রথম যোগাযোগের ব্যক্তি; বিরোধ মেটানো এবং প্রশিক্ষণে অংশ নেওয়ার আগে সম্মতি বা আলোচনার কেন্দ্র হিসেবেও সরদারকে বলা হয়েছে।
What this research adds
Adds a named intermediary in access to care and training; distinct from a guardian, healer or clinician. The leader is not described as personally diagnosing illness.
Mental health connection
Care navigation and participation context, not a symptom or a credential.
Safe messaging for media
- Use the expression in its stated context; do not present it as a diagnosis or universal translation.
- Avoid describing a person by a stigmatizing term unless the person self-identifies that way and the wording is necessary.
- For suicide-related coverage, avoid method detail, sensational headlines, and single-cause explanations; include help-seeking information.
- Link to this entry’s evidence limits and distinguish contributor wording from analyst interpretation.
Established meaning — English
A leader or headman. [BEMLEX01]
Established meaning — Bengali
দলনেতা বা প্রধান ব্যক্তি। [BEMLEX01]
Context of use
a source record and a source record describe their own leader. Community labels appear in interviewer questions; the leadership pattern must not be generalized to an entire ethnicity or mobile population.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
Routes help-seeking and makes participation dependent on discussion or agreement; also mobilizes others to explain a request.
Attributed origins
The lexical resource marks Persian origin. The interviews do not explain how this office is obtained or whether authority is formal.
Variation and visualization
The source writes সরদার, সরদাররে and সরদারের. These recorded spellings remain intact; no dialect or non-Bangla language assignment is made.
What is uncertain
First consultation with a leader does not establish that the leader provides clinical treatment or that all community members require permission.
Commonness and evidence limits
Attested in two of these three interviews in separate care, conflict and training contexts; no population frequency estimate.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
গারজিয়ান / গাজ্জিয়ান — A guardian may accompany or decide for a person; this leader is described as a wider community authority.
Antonyms and contrasts
No exact local antonym established. Contextual contrasts do not establish a universal lexical opposite.
Across languages
English: community leader — An English role description. Approximate in these accounts; it does not imply an elected office or medical expertise. [BEMLEX01]
স্বাক্ষাতকার গ্রহণকারীঃ বেদে সম্প্রদায়ে কারো মানসিক সমস্যা হলে কার কাছে নিবেন আগে?
অংশ গ্রহণকারীঃ সরদারের কাছে।
অংশ গ্রহণ কারীঃ আমাদের সরদারের সাথে কথা বলব। সরদার রাজি হলে করব।
All evidence IDs: E2111; E2112; E2113; E2114; E2115
Perspectives from different contexts
Perspectives are shown side by side. Similarity does not mean equivalence. No one perspective speaks for an entire culture.