zilla parishad, n.

zilla-parishad
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Revised 2021

# zilla parishadnoun

## Factsheet

### What does the noun zilla parishad mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun zilla parishad. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

### How common is the noun zilla parishad?

About 0.03occurrences per million words in modern written English

1950 | 0.034
1960 | 0.033
1970 | 0.032
1980 | 0.03
1990 | 0.035
2000 | 0.035
2010 | 0.024

### Where does the noun zilla parishad come from?

Earliest known use

1950s

The earliest known use of the noun zilla parishad is in the 1950s.

OED's earliest evidence for zilla parishad is from 1957, in the Times of India.

### Nearby entries

1. zig-zig, n. 1918–
2. Zika, n. 1952–
3. Zilavka, n. 1926–
4. zilch, n. & adj. 1925–
5. zilch, v. 1957–
6. zill, n. 1754–
7. zilla, n. 1772–
8. -zilla, comb. form
9. zilladar, n. 1763–
10. Zil lane, n. 1985–
11. zilla parishad, n.1957–
12. zillion, n. & adj. 1920–
13. zillionaire, n. 1926–
14. zillionth, n. & adj. 1940–
15. zimb, n. 1790–
16. Zimba, n. 1625–
17. Zimbabwe, n. 1891–
18. Zimbabwean, adj. & n. 1961–
19. zimbel, n. 1888–
20. zimme, n. 1848–63
21. Zimmer, n. 1951–

## Etymology

After Hindi zilā pariṣad.

## Meaning & use

1. 1957–
   (In South Asia, esp. India and Bangladesh) a body administering local government at the zilla level; a district council; cf. parishad n. 1.
   1. 1957

      > The budget of the panchayat samiti would have to be approved by a zilla parishad consisting of the presidents of the constituent panchayat samitis, local M.L.A.s and M.P.s, and officials of various administrative and development departments in the district.

      Times of India 21 October 1/5
   2. 1958

      > The establishment of Zila Parishads at the district level, Panchayat Samities at the bloc and Village Panchayats at the village levels.

      Indian Journal Polit. Science vol. 19 352
   3. 1988

      > The Zia government..did not attempt to democratize the thana and zilla parishads.

      Asian Surv. vol. 28 815
   4. 1992

      > The youth wing's lacklustre performance in the last zilla parishad and municipal council elections.

      Sunday Times of India 19 April 5/5
   politics
   1. panchayat 1778–
      In South Asia: a group of five or more people which sits as a council or a court of law to decide on matters affecting a village, community, or caste.
   2. jamaat 1850–
      With plural agreement. The representatives sitting on a council or committee that has administrative responsibility for a particular group or…
   3. panch 1853–
      = panchayat, n. Now rare.
   4. parishad 1861–
      In South Asia: (originally) an assembly of learned men; (later) a local assembly or council (cf. panchayat, n.). Cf. zilla parishad, n.
   5. sabha 1922–
      In India, an assembly; a council or society (see quots.). Cf. Lok Sabha, n., Rajya Sabha, n.
   6. samiti 1930–
      In India and Bangladesh, an assembly or committee.
   7. zilla parishad 1957–
      (In South Asia, esp. India and Bangladesh) a body administering local government at the zilla level; a district council; cf. parishad, n. 1.
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## Frequency

zilla parishad typically occurs about 0.03 times per million words in modern written English.

zilla parishad is in frequency band 3, which contains words occurring between 0.01 and 0.1 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 zilla parishad, n., 1950–2010

* 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
--- | ---
1950 | 0.034
1960 | 0.033
1970 | 0.032
1980 | 0.03
1990 | 0.035
2000 | 0.035
2010 | 0.024

### Frequency of zilla parishad, n., 2017–2024

* Occurrences per million words in written English

Modern frequency series are derived from a corpus of 20 billion words, covering the period from 2017 to the present. The corpus is mainly compiled from online news sources, and covers all major varieties of World English.

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 corpus.

Period | Frequency per million words
--- | ---
2017 | 0.056
2018 | 0.054
2019 | 0.055
2020 | 0.063
2021 | 0.056
2022 | 0.054
2023 | 0.056
2024 | 0.055

Originally published as part of the entry for zilla, n.

zilla, n. was revised in March 2021.