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जोत jot [Prk. जोƣं; S. योƠं, rt. युज], s.f. Fastening, tie, band, cord, rope, strap, trace (of a carriage, etc.); the strap or cord that fastens the yoke of a plough, etc. to the neck of the ox; a yoke; the rigging of a ship;—(v.n. of jotnā, q.v.) yoking (oxen to a carriage, or to a plough, etc.);—ploughing, tillage, cultivation, husbandry, agriculture; cultivated land, a cultivated tract; the holding or tenure of a cultivator; the rent paid by a cultivator:—jotbot, s.f. Tillage, husbaudry, agriculture:—jotjam`, s.f. The land cultivated and the assessment paid by a cultivator:—jot-jog, adj. Fit for cultivation, culturable, arable:—jot-dār, s.m. Plougher, tiller, husbandman, one cultivating land:—be-jot, adj. Uncultivated, untilled (land):—be-jot jam`, s.f. A statement in the public account of the revenue leviable on land left uncultivated:—nij-jot, s.f. The lands of cultivating proprietors (syn. ḵẖud-kāsht).
Origin: Hindi