Citations:Tarkhan

Noun: historical Central Asian title

 * 1853, Sir Henry Elliot, Appendix to The Arabs in Sind, Saul Solomon & Co., page 201:
 * Upon proceeding to reward his gallant companions in the conflict, Changéz Khán conferred upon the two youths, to whose information he was indebted for his life, the title of Tarkhán, expressly ordaining that their posterity for nine generations should be exempted from all question for their offences, that they should be free from taxes and imposts, and permitted to enjoy all the plunder they should acquire in war, without being obliged to resign any part of it to the Khán.
 * 1967, R. F. Tapsell, The year of the horsetails, Alfred A. Knopf, page 189:
 * As if in immediate confirmation, the flag bearer shouted from below in Drevich, though with an atrocious accent: “A parley—the Tarkhan desires to talk with your commander.”
 * 1873, Arminius Vámbéry, History of Bokhara: from the Earliest Period Down to the Present, Henry S. King & Co., page 18:
 * In Narshakhi and Tabari we only hear of individual tarkhans, who at the time of the Arab invasion ruled in Beïkend, Rametin, Vardanzi, Samarkand, and Fergana. But they leave us in doubt as to whether these were independent of one another or under the suzerainty of a Khakan.

Proper noun: Ancient Egyptian city

 * 1996, Toby A. H. Wilkinson, State Formation in Egypt: Chronology and Society, Tempvs Reparatvm, page 73:
 * Thus, the data indicate a greater inequality within Tarkhan society after the beginning of the First Dynasty.
 * 1937, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, The Funeral Furniture of Egypt, British School of Archaeology, page 6:
 * Others are dated by pottery in the graves at Tarkhan,
 * 1996, A. Jeffrey Spencer, Aspects of Early Egypt, British Museum Press, page 66:
 * When comparing the archaeological material from Umm el Qaab with that from Tarkhan by means of the ‘protodynasti’ typology, there seems to be hardly any likenesses between the two, since the types present at Umm el Qaab rarely occur at Tarkhan.

Noun: Punjabi caste of carpenters

 * 1882, Sir James Wilson, General Code of Tribal Custom in the Sirsa District of The Panjáb, page 98:
 * Suthárs, Tarkháns, and Bágrí Khátís are all the same tribe and all intermarry,
 * 1990, W. Owen Cole, Piara Singh Sambhi, A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism: Sikh Religion and Philosophy, Curzon Press, page 70:
 * They take their name from Jassa Singh, a tarkhan who commanded one of the Sikh misls in the eighteenth century and is renowned for his government and defence of the Ramgarth fort in Amritsar.
 * 2013, Naginder Sehmi, Twisted Turban, Mereo, page 47:
 * “. A jat boy can marry a tarkhan girl but a jat will not allow his daughter to marry a tarkhan boy or outside his clan?”