inhabitant

English

Alternative forms

• enhabitant (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English inhabitantes (n. plural) and inhabitaunt (adj.), from Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitāns, present participle of inhabitō (“to inhabit”), from in- (“in”) + habitō (“to dwell”) (frequentative of habeō (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“to seize, take, hold, have”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈhæ.bɪ.tənt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: in‧hab‧i‧tant

Noun

inhabitant (plural inhabitants)

1. Someone or thing who lives in a place.

   Synonyms: resident, dweller

   • 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 216:

     I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.

   • 2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, in The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103, column 2:

     About 98 per cent of Taiwan's inhabitants are Han Chinese, a diverse mix of ethnic and linguistic groups, including Hakka, Cantonese and Fujianese, who came from China's southern coast. Taiwan's other two per cent are from one of the nine indigenous tribes, which are scattered throughout the island but largely concentrated along the east coast and in the Central Mountain Range.

Related terms

• inhabit

Translations

someone or thing who lives in a place

• Albanian: banor (sq) m
• Arabic: سَاكِن (ar) m (sākin), سَاكِنَة f (sākina), سُكَّان pl (sukkān), أَهْل (ʔahl) (collective)

  Egyptian Arabic: ساكن m (sākin)

• Aragonese: habitant m, habitanta f
• Armenian: բնակիչ (hy) (bnakičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: sakin (az), əhl (collective)
• Belarusian: жыха́р (be) m (žyxár), жыха́рка f (žyxárka), насе́льнік m (nasjélʹnik), насе́льніца f (nasjélʹnica), жы́цель m (žýcjelʹ), жы́целька f (žýcjelʹka)
• Bengali: বাসিন্দা (baśinda)
• Bulgarian: жи́тел m (žítel), жи́телка f (žítelka), обита́тел (bg) m (obitátel), обита́телка f (obitátelka)
• Catalan: habitant (ca) m or f
• Cebuano: lumulupyo
• Cherokee: ᎡᎯ (ehi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 居民 (zh) (jūmín), 居住者 (zh) (jūzhùzhě)

• Chukchi: нымытваԓьын (nymytvaḷʹyn)
• Czech: obyvatel (cs) m, obyvatelka (cs) f
• Danish: indbygger (da) c
• Dutch: bewoner (nl) m, bewoonster (nl) f, inwoner (nl) m, inwoonster (nl) f
• Esperanto: loĝanto, loĝantino (female), enloĝanto, enloĝantino (female)
• 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) m or f
• 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)

  Ancient: κάτοικος m (kátoikos), (Epic) οἰκήτωρ m (oikḗtōr)

• Hebrew: תושב \ תּוֹשָׁב m (tosháv), תּוֹשֶׁבֶת \ תושבת (he) f (toshévet)
• Hindi: निवासी (hi) m (nivāsī), रहनेवाला m (rahnevālā)
• Hungarian: lakos (hu), lakó (hu)
• Icelandic: íbúi (is) m
• 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)
• Kazakh: тұрғын (tūrğyn), мекендеуші (mekendeuşı)
• Khmer: អ្នកស្រុក (nĕək srok)
• Kikuyu: mũikari class 1
• Korean: 주민(住民) (ko) (jumin), 거주자(居住者) (ko) (geojuja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rûniştvan (ku) m or f, şênî (ku) m or f, akincî (ku) m or f

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• Kyrgyz: тургун (ky) (turgun)
• Latin: cultor m, cultrīx f, incola (la) m or f, habitātor m, habitātrīx f
• Latvian: iedzīvotājs m
• Lithuanian: gyventojas (lt) m
• Livonian: jelānikā
• Luxembourgish: Awunner (lb) m, Awunnerin f
• Macedonian: жител m (žitel), жителка f (žitelka)
• Malay: penghuni
• Maori: kainoho
• Middle English: dweller
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: суугч (mn) (suugč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innbygger (no) m

  Nynorsk: innbyggar m, innbyggjar m

• Occitan: abitant (oc) m, abitanta (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: жител҄ь m (žitelʹĭ), жителинъ m (žitelinŭ)

• Old English: būend m
• Pennsylvania German: Eiwuhner m
• Persian: ساکن (fa) (sâken), مقیم (fa) (moqim), اهل (fa) (ahl)
• Plautdietsch: Bewona m
• Polish: mieszkaniec (pl) m, mieszkanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: habitante (pt) m or f
• 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: стано̀внӣк m, стано̀вница f, жи́тељ m, житељка f, житељица f

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

• Slovak: obyvateľ m, obyvateľka f
• Slovene: prebivalec (sl) m, prebivalka f
• Spanish: habitante (es) m or f, residente (es) m or f, lugareño m, lugareña (es) f
• Swahili: mwenyeji (sw) class 1/2
• Swedish: invånare (sv) c, inbyggare (sv) c
• Tajik: сокин (sokin), аҳл (ahl)
• Telugu: నివాసి (te) (nivāsi)
• Thai: พลเมือง (th) (pon-lá-mʉʉang), พสกนิกร (th) (pá-sòk-gà-ní-gɔɔn)
• Tofa: черлеғші (çerleğşi)
• Turkish: durgun (tr), sakin (tr)
• Turkmen: ýaşaýjysy
• Ukrainian: ме́шканець m (méškanecʹ), ме́шканка f (méškanka), жи́тель m (žýtelʹ), жи́телька f (žýtelʹka)
• Uzbek: yashovchi (uz), turuvchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: cư dân (vi) (居民)
• Yoruba: olùgbé

Adjective

inhabitant (not comparable)

1. resident

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) inhabitant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of inhabitō

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Old French

Noun

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

1. inhabitant

Descendants

• → English: inhabitant

References

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