different between dorp vs jaghir

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch dorp, which see for more. Doublet of thorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.

Noun

dorp (plural dorps)

1. (now chiefly South Africa) A village or small town; a town considered provincial.
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 51:

     ‘You can't hang about this dorp doing nothing.’

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 186:

     I took on a case in the little dorp of Villiers in the Orange Free State.

Anagrams

• Prod, Prod., drop, prod

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dorp, from Middle Dutch dorp, from Old Dutch *thorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurp?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?rp/

Noun

dorp (plural dorpe, diminutive dorpie)

1. town
2. village

Descendants

• ? Sotho: toropo
• ? Tswana: toropo
• ? Venda: ?orobo
• ? Xhosa: idolophu

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dorp, from Old Dutch thorp, from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurp?. Doublet of terp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?rp/
• Hyphenation: dorp
• Rhymes: -?rp

Noun

dorp n (plural dorpen, diminutive dorpje n)

1. village, small settlement

Hyponyms

• nederzetting

Coordinate terms

• gehucht
• stad

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dorp
  • ? Sotho: toropo
  • ? Tswana: toropo
  • ? Venda: ?orobo
  • ? Xhosa: idolophu
• ? English: dorp
• ? Sranan Tongo: dorpu

Anagrams

• drop

English

Noun

jaghir (plural jaghirs)

1. Alternative spelling of jagir
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, page 82:

     He figured why pay your generals hefty salaries and award them vast jagirs if you were going to end up doing all the work anyway?