different between tenant vs zamindar

English

Alternative forms

• tenaunt, tennant, tennaunt (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin ten?re, present active infinitive of tene? (“hold, keep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.n?nt/, enPR: t?n?nt
• Rhymes: -?n?nt

Noun

tenant (plural tenants)

1. One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.

   Synonyms: renter, lessee, (rare) rentee
2. (by extension) One who has possession of any place.

   Synonyms: dweller, occupant

   • c. 1782-1783, William Cowper, Joy in Martyrdom

     sweet tenants of this grove

   • 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Wish

     the happy tenant of your shade
3. (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.

4. (law) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• tenet

Verb

tenant (third-person singular simple present tenants, present participle tenanting, simple past and past participle tenanted)

1. To hold as, or be, a tenant.

   Synonym: lodge

2. (transitive) To inhabit.

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly just a modification of tenet, but note obsolete tenent (“tenet”).

Noun

tenant

1. Misconstruction of tenet

Anagrams

• -netant, Annett

Cebuano

Etymology

From English tenant, borrowed from Anglo-Norman tenaunt, from Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin ten?re, present active infinitive of tene? (“hold, keep”). Doublet of tener and tinidor.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: te?nant

Noun

tenant

1. a tenant; one who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others
2. one who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant
3. (law) one who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership

French

Etymology

Present participle of tenir. From Old French tenant; corresponding to Latin tenens, tenentem.

Pronunciation

Verb

tenant

1. present participle of tenir

Related terms

• lieutenant

Anagrams

• entant

Old French

Alternative forms

• tenaunt (Anglo-Norman, noun, adjective, verb)

Etymology

From the verb tenir (“to hold; to possess”); corresponding to Latin tenens, tenentem.

Noun

tenant m (oblique plural tenanz or tenantz, nominative singular tenanz or tenantz, nominative plural tenant)

1. holder
2. possessor (of land or property); tenant

Adjective

tenant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tenant or tenante)

1. holder; owner (attributively)
2. sticky; adhesive
3. strong (of an object, etc.)

Verb

tenant

1. present participle of tenir

Descendants

• ? English: tenant
• French: tenant

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tenant)
• tenant on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English tenant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?nant/

Noun

tenant m (plural tenantiaid)

1. tenant

Derived terms

• tenantiaeth (“tenancy”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “tenant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Alternative forms

• zemindar, zumeendar

Etymology

From Hindi ???????? (zam?nd?r), from Persian ????????? (zamin-dâr).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /z??mi?nd??/

Noun

zamindar (plural zamindars)

1. (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, now historical) An Indian landowner who collected local taxes and paid them to the British government.
   • 1861, Henry Mayhew et al., London Labour and the London Poor, London: C. Griffin, Volume 4, p. 120,^[1]

     In Bengal there were […] many female zemindars, or village revenue administrators, who were, however, subject to the influence, but not to the authority, of the male members of their family.

   • 1997, Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, Chapter 2, p. 63,^[2]

     An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality?a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood.

   • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 6:

     Indian princes, zamindars and industrialists engaged him as their counsel and paid him whatever he asked for as fees.

   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 39:

     Thus it happened that the approach of the Ibis was witnessed by Raja Neel Rattan Halder, the zemindar of Raskhali, who was on board the palatial barge with his eight-year-old son and a sizeable retune of attendants.

   • 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 402:

     The power of the zamindars, who were mainly Brahmin or Rajput, was challenged in a series of peasant movements between 1919 and 1921, when Charan Singh was in his late teens.

Derived terms

• zamindari
• zemindarate

Further reading

• zamindar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia