In feudal Turkey, the estate or fiefdom of a zaim.
1807
During the continuance of the war the ziamets and timars are granted to those among the volunteers, who in hopes of obtaining such rewards have signalized their valour.
T. Thornton, Present State of Turkey v. 166
1819
The Spahees, or horse soldiers..often only holding their Zeeameth or Timar from some grandee, as the wages of domestic service.
T. Hope, Anastasiusvol. II. xiii. 324
1877
A Ziamet comprised upwards of 500 acres... Timars and Ziamets were eagerly sought by both soldiers and officers, and became prizes to incite to valour and gallant deeds.
J. Baker, Turkey in Europe viii. 157
1902
When a new country was conquered, it was parcelled out into a number of larger fiefs called ziamets and smaller called timars.
J. B. Bury in Cambridge Modern Historyvol. I. iii. 99
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.
Vowels
iːfleece
ihappy
ɪkit
ɛdress
atrap, bath
ɑːstart, palm, bath
ɒlot
ɔːthought, force
ʌstrut
ʊfoot
uːgoose
əletter
əːnurse
ɪənear
ɛːsquare
ʊəcure
eɪface
ʌɪpride
aʊmouth
əʊgoat
ɔɪvoice
ãgratin
ɒ̃salon
ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
ziamet typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
ziamet is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of ziamet, n., 1800–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
Decade
Frequency per million words
1800
0.034
1810
0.027
1820
0.025
1830
0.022
1840
0.021
1850
0.021
1860
0.021
1870
0.0051
1880
0.0055
1890
0.0036
1900
0.0036
1910
0.0025
1920
0.0029
1930
0.0031
1940
0.0031
1950
0.0029
1960
0.0029
1970
0.003
1980
0.0027
1990
0.002
2000
0.0018
2010
0.0016
ziamet, n. was first published in 1993; not fully revised.