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- Persian · derived fromتیمار
- Ottoman Turkish · borrowed fromتیمار
- English todaytimar
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تیمار (timar), from Persian تیمار (timâr).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
timar
Today it means: A fiefdom in the Ottoman Empire granted by the Sultan to a spahi in exchange for his cavalryman service and cultivated by villeins who leased it from him. Full definition →
Ottoman Turkish تیمار ← Persian تیمار