inhabitant

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• /ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH0 N HH AE1 B AH0 T AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”). By surface analysis, inhabit + -ant.

167 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: banor — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Arabic: سَاكِن (sākin) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Arabic: سَاكِنَة (sākina) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Arabic: سُكَّان (sukkān) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Arabic: أَهْل (ʔahl) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Arabic: ساكن (sākin) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Aragonese: habitant — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Aragonese: habitanta — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Armenian: բնակիչ (bnakičʻ) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Azerbaijani: sakin — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Azerbaijani: əhl — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Basque: biztanle — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Basque: bizilagun — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Belarusian: жыха́р (žyxár) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Belarusian: жыха́рка (žyxárka) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Belarusian: насе́льнік (nasjélʹnik) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Belarusian: насе́льніца (nasjélʹnica) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Belarusian: жы́цель (žýcjelʹ) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Belarusian: жы́целька (žýcjelʹka) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Bengali: বাসিন্দা (baśinda) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Bulgarian: жи́тел (žítel) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Bulgarian: жи́телка (žítelka) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Bulgarian: обита́тел (obitátel) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Bulgarian: обита́телка (obitátelka) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Catalan: habitant — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Cebuano: lumulupyo — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Cherokee: ᎡᎯ (ehi) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Chinese Mandarin: 居民 (jūmín) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Chinese Mandarin: 居住者 (jūzhùzhě) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Chukchi: нымытваԓьын (nymytvaḷʹyn) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Czech: obyvatel — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Czech: obyvatelka — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Danish: indbygger — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Dutch: bewoner — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Dutch: bewoonster — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Dutch: inwoner — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Dutch: inwoonster — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Esperanto: loĝanto — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Esperanto: loĝantino — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Esperanto: enloĝanto — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Esperanto: enloĝantino — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Estonian: asukas — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Extremaduran: abitanti — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Faroese: íbúgvi — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Finnish: asukas — someone or thing who lives in a place
• French: habitant — someone or thing who lives in a place
• French: habitante — someone or thing who lives in a place
• French: résident — someone or thing who lives in a place
• French: résidente — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Galician: habitante — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Georgian: მაცხოვრებელი (macxovrebeli) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Georgian: მკვიდრი (mḳvidri) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Georgian: მცხოვრები (mcxovrebi) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• German: Einwohner — someone or thing who lives in a place
• German: Einwohnerin — someone or thing who lives in a place
• German: Bewohner — someone or thing who lives in a place
• German: Bewohnerin — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Greek: κάτοικος (kátoikos) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Ancient Greek: κάτοικος (kátoikos) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Ancient Greek: οἰκήτωρ (oikḗtōr) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Hebrew: תושב \ תּוֹשָׁב (tosháv) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Hebrew: תּוֹשֶׁבֶת \ תושבת (toshévet) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Hindi: निवासी (nivāsī) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Hindi: रहनेवाला (rahnevālā) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Hindi: वासी (vāsī) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Hungarian: lakos — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Hungarian: lakó — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Icelandic: íbúi — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Ido: habitanto — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Indonesian: pemukim — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Indonesian: penduduk — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Ingrian: asunikka — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Irish: áitreabhach — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Irish: áitreabhthóir — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Italian: abitante — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Japanese: 居住者 (kyojūsha) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Japanese: 住民 (jūmin) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Kazakh: тұрғын (tūrğyn) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Kazakh: мекендеуші (mekendeuşı) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Khmer: អ្នកស្រុក (nĕək srok) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Kikuyu: mũikari — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Korean: 주민 (jumin) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Korean: 거주자 (geojuja) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Northern Kurdish: rûniştvan — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Northern Kurdish: şênî — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Northern Kurdish: akincî — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Kyrgyz: тургун (turgun) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Latin: cultor — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Latin: cultrīx — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Latin: incola — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Latin: habitātor — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Latin: habitātrīx — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Latvian: iedzīvotājs — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Lithuanian: gyventojas — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Livonian: jelānikā — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Luxembourgish: Awunner — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Luxembourgish: Awunnerin — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Macedonian: жител (žitel) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Macedonian: жителка (žitelka) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Malay: penghuni — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Māori: kainoho — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Middle English: dweller — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Mongolian: суугч (suugč) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Muna: dhiwa — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Norwegian Bokmål: innbygger — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ibuar — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Norwegian Nynorsk: innbyggjar — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Occitan: abitant — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Occitan: abitanta — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Church Slavic: жител҄ь (žitelʹĭ) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Church Slavic: жителинъ (žitelinŭ) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Old English: būend — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Pennsylvania German: Eiwuhner — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Persian: ساکن (sâken) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Persian: مقیم (moqim) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Persian: اهل (ahl) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Plautdietsch: Bewona — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Polish: mieszkaniec — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Polish: mieszkanka — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Portuguese: habitante — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Punjabi: ਵਸਨੀਕ (vasnīk) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Punjabi: ਬਾਸ਼ਿੰਦਾ (bāśindā) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Romanian: locuitor — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Romanian: locuitoare — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Russian: жи́тель (žítelʹ) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Russian: жи́тельница (žítelʹnica) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Russian: обита́тель (obitátelʹ) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Russian: обита́тельница (obitátelʹnica) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Scots: indwaller — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Serbo-Croatian: стано̀внӣк — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Serbo-Croatian: стано̀вница — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Serbo-Croatian: жи́тељ — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Serbo-Croatian: житељка — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Serbo-Croatian: жи́тељица — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Serbo-Croatian: stanòvnīk — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Serbo-Croatian: stanòvnica — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Serbo-Croatian: žítelj — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Serbo-Croatian: žiteljka — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Serbo-Croatian: žíteljica — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Slovak: obyvateľ — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Slovak: obyvateľka — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Slovene: prebivalec — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Slovene: prebivalka — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Southern Altai: кижи (kiži) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Spanish: habitante — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Swahili: mwenyeji — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Swedish: invånare — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Swedish: inbyggare — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Tajik: сокин (sokin) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Tajik: аҳл (ahl) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Telugu: నివాసి (nivāsi) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Thai: พลเมือง (pon-lá-mʉʉang) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Thai: พสกนิกร (pá-sòk-gà-ní-gɔɔn) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Tofa: черлеғші (çerleğşi) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Turkish: oturan — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Turkish: sakin — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Turkmen: ýaşaýjysy — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Ukrainian: ме́шканець (méškanecʹ) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Ukrainian: ме́шканка (méškanka) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Ukrainian: жи́тель (žýtelʹ) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Ukrainian: жи́телька (žýtelʹka) — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Uzbek: yashovchi — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Uzbek: turuvchi — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Vietnamese: cư dân — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Welsh: preswylydd — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Welsh: trigiannydd — someone or thing who lives in a place
• Yoruba: olùgbé — someone or thing who lives in a place