derbend
derbend noun: a Turkish outpost at a remote location, typically a mountain pass, manned by guards or villagers who receive tax relief for maintaining the location and protecting it from outlaws.
Noun
derbend (plural derbends)
- A Turkish outpost at a remote location, typically a mountain pass, manned by guards or villagers who receive tax relief for maintaining the location and protecting it from outlaws.
- Which reminds me to say, what I ought to have told you earlier, that the derbends which I so often mention, are stations of police guards, appointed to defend uninhabited parts of the public roads from robbers.1834, Eli Smith, Harrison Gray Otis Dwight, Josiah Conder, Missionary Researches in Armenia, page 40
- Possibly the original village was a derbend settlement (charged with the maintenance and protection of roads, passes, and bridges) and thus enjoyed a special status as a tax-exempt village.1976, Kemal H. Karpat, The Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization, →ISBN, page 72
Proper noun capitalized: Derbend
Derbend
- Alternative form of Derbent.
Forms of derbend
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Origin of derbend
From Ottoman Turkish دربند (derbend).
Questions about derbend
- What does derbend mean?
- Derbend means a Turkish outpost at a remote location, typically a mountain pass, manned by guards or villagers who receive tax relief for maintaining the location and protecting it from outlaws.
- What part of speech is derbend?
- Derbend can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of derbend?
- The plural of derbend is derbends.
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