timar

A fiefdom in the Ottoman Empire granted by the Sultan to a spahi in exchange for his cavalryman service and cultivated by villeins who leased it from him.

Noun

  1. A fiefdom in the Ottoman Empire granted by the Sultan to a spahi in exchange for his cavalryman service and cultivated by villeins who leased it from him.

Origin

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تیمار (timar), from Persian تیمار (timâr).

Forms

timars