amanaty

English

WOTD – 1 August 2016

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian амана́ты (amanáty, “hostages”), plural of амана́т (amanát, “hostage”), ultimately from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna, “surety”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æməˈnɑːti/

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• Hyphenation: a‧ma‧na‧ty

Noun

amanaty

1. plural of amanat
   • 1943, George Vernadsky, A History of Russia, rev. edition, volume 5, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →OCLC, page 550:

     The treaty of 1657 repeated the main items of the treaty of 1655, and two new conditions were added: the Kalmyks were to give hostages (amanaty) as surety […]

   • 2002, European Review of Native American Studies, Budapest: Pallas Lap- és Könyvkiadó Vállalat, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

     In the mid-1790s the number of amanaty kept by the Russians was rather substantial. They often accompanied the promyshlenniki on dangerous sea voyages as guides and subsidiary working force.

   • 2005, Alexandra M. Haugh, Indigenous Political Culture and Eurasian Empire: Russia in Siberia in the Seventeenth Century (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Santa Cruz, Calif.: University of California, Santa Cruz, →OCLC, page 205:

     If need be, the governors purchased foodstuffs for their amanaty out of their town budgets. For instance, the town of Staraia Mangazeia purchased in the summer of 1681 enough grain to feed the amanaty at multiple smaller posts under their jurisdiction that held an array of Samoed, Ostiak and Tungus amanaty.

Anagrams

• manyata