mahajann.

Brit.

/məˈhɑːdʒən/, U.S.

/məˈhɑdʒən/

Forms: 1800s mahajun, 1900s– mahajan.

Origin: A borrowing from Sanskrit. Etymons: Sanskrit mahājana, mahājan.

Etymology: < Sanskrit mahājana (also with pronunciation mahājan) ‘a merchant, a dealer, a banker or money-changer..in some places in the south of India it denotes the head of a trade or caste’ ( H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms (1855) 317) < mahā- great (see mickle adj.) + jana man, person.

South Asian.

In South Asia: a local moneylender, a usurer.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest

ten tribes971

gavellerc1200

usurerc1290

Caorsin1303

collybistc1380

ockererc1390

fenerator1447

usuraryc1450

usurier1480

user1566

fulker1568

money-monger1571

moneylender1598

twenty in the hundred1602

Jew's trump1605

putter-outa1616

money-bawd1631

chevisancer1633

use-man1633

Lombardeer1645

money-banker1677

bummaree1738

mahajan1852

sixty per cent1853

gombeen-man1862

1852 Househ. Words 17 Jan. 390/2 The mahajun or native money-lender. This will frequently be the talukdhar or sub-renter.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 21 May 2/1 The mahajan takes our money and our grain; but the Sahib takes more, even our lives, and the lives of our children.

1985 K. Spink tr. D. Lapierre City of Joy i. ii. 8 Nearly all the inhabitants of Bankuli had been compelled at some time or other to call on the mahajan, the jeweller-usurer.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mahajan
释义	mahajann. Brit. /məˈhɑːdʒən/, U.S. /məˈhɑdʒən/ Forms: 1800s mahajun, 1900s– mahajan. Origin: A borrowing from Sanskrit. Etymons: Sanskrit mahājana, mahājan. Etymology: < Sanskrit mahājana (also with pronunciation mahājan) ‘a merchant, a dealer, a banker or money-changer..in some places in the south of India it denotes the head of a trade or caste’ ( H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms (1855) 317) < mahā- great (see mickle adj.) + jana man, person. South Asian. In South Asia: a local moneylender, a usurer. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest ten tribes971 gavellerc1200 usurerc1290 Caorsin1303 collybistc1380 ockererc1390 fenerator1447 usuraryc1450 usurier1480 user1566 fulker1568 money-monger1571 moneylender1598 twenty in the hundred1602 Jew's trump1605 putter-outa1616 money-bawd1631 chevisancer1633 use-man1633 Lombardeer1645 money-banker1677 bummaree1738 mahajan1852 sixty per cent1853 gombeen-man1862 1852 Househ. Words 17 Jan. 390/2 The mahajun or native money-lender. This will frequently be the talukdhar or sub-renter. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 21 May 2/1 The mahajan takes our money and our grain; but the Sahib takes more, even our lives, and the lives of our children. 1985 K. Spink tr. D. Lapierre City of Joy i. ii. 8 Nearly all the inhabitants of Bankuli had been compelled at some time or other to call on the mahajan, the jeweller-usurer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1852
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