kādir كادِر , pl. kawādirᵘ
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√KDR, KāDR
1a (Fr cadre) cadre (of a military unit, of a governmental agency, of a corporation, etc.), skeleton organization; 1b qualified and politically trained staff of personel (party); 1c (EgAr) payroll group (of officials, employees); 1d (AlgAr) functionaires, administrative officers – WehrCowan1979.
Loanword, from Engl cadre, from Fr cadre (see section WEST, below).
▪ Cf. Engl cadre, n., ‘permanently organized framework of a military unit’ (the officers, etc., as opposed to the rank-and-file), 1851; earlier ‘framework, scheme’ (1830); from Fr cadre, lit. ‘a frame of a picture’ (C16), so, ‘a detachment forming the skeleton of a regiment,’ from It quadro, from Lat quadrum ‘a square,’ which related to quattuor ‘four’ (from protIE root *kwetwer‑ ‘four’). The communist sense ‘group or cell of workers trained to promote the interests of the Party’ is from 1930 – EtymOnline
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