nayaka

noun

1. A lord or governor in South Asia.
2. An officer (equivalent to corporal) in a corps of Indian or Nepalese soldiers.“1888: Also, he had to keep his temper [...] especially once when he was abused by a Naik he had himself recruited from Isser Jang village — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)”