Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
Common noun-steward or tutor
(Dan. 1:11,16).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
One under whom Daniel and his companions were placed in Babylon (Dan. 1:11-16). The Hebrew has the article, and it is supposed to be a title, as “the steward,” rather than a proper name.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
of Persian derivation; the butler or other officer in the Babylonian court
Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:
the circumcised, he straitened
Potts’ Bible Proper Names:
The glory has gone; chief butler:―steward in Babylonian court, Dan. 1:11. {Dereliquit splendor}