different between hamlet vs jaghir

English

Etymology

From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæm.l?t/
• Homophone: Hamlet

Noun

hamlet (plural hamlets)

1. A small village or a group of houses.

   Synonym: thorp

2. (Britain) A village that does not have its own church.
3. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

Hypernyms

• (small village): settlement

Translations

Anagrams

• Eltham, Lathem, Thelma, methal

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +? let (“colour”).

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter, definite plural hamletene)

1. skin colour, complexion

   Synonym: hudfarge

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hamlett

Pronunciation

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +? let (“colour”).

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter or hamletar, definite plural hamletene or hamletane)

1. skin colour, complexion

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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?