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[Hindi mahāvat, mahāut, from Sanskrit mahāmātraḥ, one having great measure, mahout, mahā-, great, + mātram, measure (from mimīte, mā-, he measures; see mē-2).]

noun

The keeper and driver of an elephant

The word mahout comes from the Hindi words mahaut and mahavat, derivatives of the Sanskrit word mahamatra, meaning “[one] having great measure.”

Another term for mahout is cornac (as in French, from the Portuguese; kornak in Dutch and Polish, also a rather current last name), from the Singhalese kurawanayaka (‘stable master’ – also a former Hindu culture).

In Burma (Myanmar) the profession is called oozie, and in Thailand (Siam) kao-chang.

in India called Mahawat