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Etymology
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From Old French enhabiter, from Latin inhabitare (in + habitare).
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- IPA(key): /ɪnˈhæbɪt/
- Hyphenation: in‧hab‧it
- Rhymes: -æbɪt
inhabit (third-person singular simple present inhabits, present participle inhabiting, simple past and past participle inhabited)
- (transitive) To live or reside in.
- Synonyms: bedwell; see also Thesaurus:reside
The Inuit inhabit the Arctic.
- (transitive) To be present in.
- Synonym: occupy
Strange thoughts inhabit my mind.
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to live or reside in some place
- Arabic: أَقَام (ʔaqām), قَطَن (qaṭan), سَكَن (sakan)
- Egyptian Arabic: سكن (seken)
- Moroccan Arabic: سْكن (skən)
- Atayal: mutuw
- Bulgarian: живея в (živeja v), обитавам (bg) (obitavam)
- Burmese: ကျက်စား (my) (kyakca:)
- Catalan: habitar (ca)
- Czech: obývat
- Dutch: wonen (nl)
- Finnish: asuttaa (fi)
- French: habiter (fr)
- Galician: habitar (gl)
- German: bewohnen (de)
- Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌰𐌽 (bauan)
- Greek: κατοικώ (el) (katoikó), ενοικώ (el) (enoikó)
- Ancient: οἰκέω (oikéō), ναίω (naíō) (Epic)
- Hungarian: lakik (hu)
- Irish: áitrigh
- Old Irish: ad·treba
- Italian: abitare (it)
- Korean: 거주하다 (ko) (geojuhada)
- Ladino: morar
- Latin: possideo, habito (la), incolō
- Macedonian: живее (živee), престојува (prestojuva)
- Occitan: abitar (oc)
- Polish: zamieszkiwać (pl)
- Portuguese: habitar (pt), morar (pt), viver (pt)
- Russian: населя́ть (ru) impf (naseljátʹ), жить (ru) impf (žitʹ), прожива́ть (ru) impf (proživátʹ), обита́ть (ru) impf (obitátʹ)
- Sanskrit: क्षेति (kṣeti)
- Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaich, àitich
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wobydliś pf
- Spanish: habitar (es), morar (es), vivir (es)
- Swedish: bebo (sv), befolka (sv)
- Walloon: dimorer (wa), dimani (wa)
- Welsh: cyfanheddu
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to be present in some place
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