different between village vs jaghir

English

Etymology

From Middle English village, from Old French village, from Latin vill?ticus, ultimately from Latin villa (English villa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?l?d??/
• Hyphenation: vil?lage
• Rhymes: -?l?d?

Noun

village (plural villages)

1. A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

2. (Britain) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
3. (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
4. (Philippines) A gated community.

Synonyms

• thorp (archaic)

Hypernyms

• settlement

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• villa
• -wich
• wick

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin villaticus, from villa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.la?/

Noun

village m (plural villages)

1. village
2. (Louisiana) town, city

Related terms

• villageois

Further reading

• “village” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Occitan

Alternative forms

• vilage

Noun

village m (plural villages)

1. village

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?