inhabitant

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English

Alternative forms

• enhabitant (archaic)

Etymology

Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitans, present participle of inhabito (“to inhabit”), from in- (“in”) + habitō (“to dwell”) (frequentative of habeō (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“seize, take, hold, have”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈhæ.bɪ.tənt/

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• Hyphenation: in‧hab‧i‧tant

Noun

inhabitant (plural inhabitants)

1. someone or thing who lives in a place

Related terms

• inhabit

Translations

Someone or thing who lives in a place

• Arabic: سَاكِن‎ (ar) m (sākin), سُكَّان‎ pl (sukkān)
• Aragonese: habitant
• Belarusian: жыха́р (be) m (žyxár), жыха́рка f (žyxárka)
• Bulgarian: жи́тел m (žítel), обита́тел (bg) m (obitátel)
• Catalan: habitant (ca) m
• Cebuano: lumulupyo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 居民 (zh) (jūmín)

• Chukchi: нымытваԓьын (nymytvaḷʹyn)
• Czech: obyvatel (cs) m
• Dutch: bewoner (nl) m, inwoner (nl)
• Esperanto: loĝanto, enloĝanto
• Estonian: asukas (et)
• Faroese: íbúgvi m
• Finnish: asukas (fi)
• French: habitant (fr) m, habitante (fr) f, résident (fr) m, résidente (fr) f
• Galician: habitante (gl)
• Georgian: მაცხოვრებელი (macxovrebeli), მკვიდრი (mḳvidri), მცხოვრები (mcxovrebi)
• German: Einwohner (de) m, Einwohnerin (de) f, Bewohner (de) m, Bewohnerin (de) f
• Greek: κάτοικος (el) m or f (kátoikos)
• Hebrew: תושב‎ m
• Hungarian: lakos (hu), lakó (hu)
• Ido: habitanto (io)
• Irish: áitreabhach m, áitreabhthóir m
• Italian: abitante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 居住者 (ja) (きょじゅうしゃ, kyojūsha), 住民 (ja) (じゅうみん, jūmin)

• Korean: 주민 (ko) (jumin)
• Latin: cultor m, incola (la) m or f, habitator m, habitatrix f
• Luxembourgish: Awunner (lb) m
• Macedonian: жи́тел m (žítel), жи́телка f (žítelka)
• Malay: penghuni
• Maori: kainoho
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innbygger (no) m

  Nynorsk: innbyggjar m

• Old English: būend
• Pennsylvania German: Eiwuhner
• Polish: mieszkaniec (pl) m, mieszkanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: habitante (pt) c
• Romanian: locuitor (ro) m, locuitoare (ro) f
• Russian: жи́тель (ru) m (žítelʹ), жи́тельница (ru) f (žítelʹnica), обита́тель (ru) m (obitátelʹ), обита́тельница (ru) f (obitátelʹnica)
• Scots: indwaller
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: становник m, становница f, житељ m, житељка f, житељица f

  Roman: stanòvnīk (sh) m, stanòvnica (sh) f, žítelj (sh) m, žiteljka f, žíteljica (sh) f

• Slovene: prebivalec (sl) m, prebivalka f
• Spanish: habitante (es), residente (es) m, lugareño m
• Swahili: mwenyeji (sw) class 1/2
• Swedish: invånare (sv), inbyggare (sv)
• Telugu: నివాసి (te) (nivāsi)
• Tofa: черлеғші (çerleğşi)

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• Danish: ^{(please verify)} indbygger (da) c

Adjective

inhabitant (not comparable)

1. Resident.

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Latin

Verb

inhabitant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of inhabitō

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Old French

Noun

inhabitant m (oblique plural inhabitanz or inhabitantz, nominative singular inhabitanz or inhabitantz, nominative plural inhabitant)

1. inhabitant

Descendants

• English: inhabitant (borrowed)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (inhabitant)