ziamet, n.

ziamet
http://www.oed.com/dictionary/ziamet_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_use
First published 1993; not fully revised

# ziametnoun

## Factsheet

### What does the noun ziamet mean?

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

#### Entry status

OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised.

### How common is the noun ziamet?

Fewer than 0.01occurrences per million words in modern written English

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

### How is the noun ziamet pronounced?

#### British English

/ˈziamɛt/

### Where does the noun ziamet come from?

Earliest known use

1800s

The earliest known use of the noun ziamet is in the 1800s.

OED's earliest evidence for ziamet is from 1807, in the writing of T. Thornton.

ziamet is a borrowing from Turkish.

Etymons: Turkish zeamet.

### Nearby entries

1. zeze, n. 1860–
2. Zhdanovism, n. 1958–
3. Zhdanovist, adj. 1966–
4. Zhdanovite, adj. 1957–
5. zho, n. 1841–
6. zhomo, n. 1841–
7. zhuyin zimu, n. 1938–
8. zhuzh, n. 1968–
9. zhuzh, v. 1970–
10. zhuzhy, adj. 1968–
11. ziamet, n.1807–
12. ziarat, n. 1776–
13. zibeline, n. 1585–
14. zibet, n. 1594–
15. zibet-muff, n. 1685
16. zibib, n. 1836–
17. ziczac, n. 1844–
18. zidovudine, n. 1987–
19. Ziegfeld, n. 1913–
20. Ziegler, n. 1957–
21. Ziegler-Natta, n. 1965–

## Etymology

### Summary

A borrowing from Turkish.
Etymon: Turkish zeamet.
< Turkish zeamet, < zaim: see zaim n.

## Meaning & use

Historical.

1. 1807–
   In feudal Turkey, the estate or fiefdom of a zaim.
   1. 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
   2. 1819

      > The Spahees, or horse soldiers..often only holding their Zeeameth or Timar from some grandee, as the wages of domestic service.

      T. Hope, Anastasius vol. II. xiii. 324
   3. 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
   4. 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 History vol. I. iii. 99
   historical

## Pronunciation

### British English

/ˈziamɛt/

####

##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- ɬrhingyll
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

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.

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## Forms

### Variant forms

Also †Zeeameth.

## Frequency

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.

ziamet, n. was last modified in December 2024.