tımar

Meaning

timar, a kind of Ottoman Empire fief granted by the Sultan to a spahi in exchange for his cavalryman service and cultivated by villeins who leased it from him

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Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تیمار (timar, “timar, an Ottoman fief”), from Persian تیمار (timâr, “care, nurture”).

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