chetty

Etymology
Ultimately from or.

Noun

 * 1) A member of one of various South Indian castes of merchants, money-lenders and land-owners.
 * 2) * 2000, Laure Adler, : A Life, translated by Anne-Marie Glasheen, London: Victor Gollancz, Chapter 3, p. 58,
 * Marguerite's mother was earning 22,000 francs a month. A quarter of that went to the owner of the Saigon boarding house; another quarter to Pierre's tutor in France and a third went to the chetties to pay off loans made for the concession.
 * 1) * 2000, Laure Adler, : A Life, translated by Anne-Marie Glasheen, London: Victor Gollancz, Chapter 3, p. 58,
 * Marguerite's mother was earning 22,000 francs a month. A quarter of that went to the owner of the Saigon boarding house; another quarter to Pierre's tutor in France and a third went to the chetties to pay off loans made for the concession.
 * Marguerite's mother was earning 22,000 francs a month. A quarter of that went to the owner of the Saigon boarding house; another quarter to Pierre's tutor in France and a third went to the chetties to pay off loans made for the concession.

Translations

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 * Telugu: చెట్టి