zamindar

• zemindar
• zumeendar, Zumeendar

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zəˈmiːndɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /zəˈmiːndɑːɹ/

zamindar (plural zamindars)

1. (South Asia, 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, chapter 2, in The God of Small Things‎^[2], New York: Random House, page 63:

     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, published 2014, page 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, published 2015, page 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, page 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.

• zamindari
• zemindarate

• zamindar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Malay zamindar, from Persian زمیندار (zamindâr).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /zaˈmindar/ [zaˈmin.dar]
• Rhymes: -indar
• Syllabification: za‧min‧dar

zamindar (plural zamindar-zamindar or para zamindar)

1. (historical) zamindar

Borrowed from Persian زمیندار (zamindâr).

• IPA^(key): /zaˈmindar/ [zaˈmin.dar]
• Rhymes: -indar
• Hyphenation: za‧min‧dar

zamindar (Jawi spelling زاميندر, plural zamindar-zamindar)

1. (historical) zamindar

• Indonesian: zamindar

• “zamindar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.