Etymology

zamindar

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Today it means: An Indian landowner who collected local taxes and paid them to the British government. Full definition →

Urdu زمیندار ← Persian زمیندار
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The story

  1. Persian · derived fromزمیندار
  2. Urdu · borrowed fromزمیندار“landlord”
  3. English todayzamindar

Borrowed from Urdu زمیندار (zamīndār, “landlord”), from Persian زمیندار.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.