pacht

See also: Pacht

English

Noun

pacht (plural pachts)

1. (historical) A system of tax farming in the Dutch Republic, where tax was not collected by the government, but by a private individual who had leased the right to collect the tax.

Czech

Etymology

Derived from German Pacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaxt]
• Hyphenation: pacht

Noun

pacht m inan

1. tenure, tenancy, lease
2. rent

Declension

Declension of pacht (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	pacht	pachty
genitive	pachtu	pachtů
dative	pachtu	pachtům
accusative	pacht	pachty
vocative	pachte	pachty
locative	pachtu	pachtech
instrumental	pachtem	pachty

Derived terms

• pachtit
• pachtovat
• pachtýř

 

Further reading

• “pacht”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
• “pacht”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑxt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pacht
• Rhymes: -ɑxt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pacht, from Latin pactum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

pacht f (plural pachten, diminutive pachtje n)

1. lease (in particular of land and immovable goods)

   Synonym: lease

Derived terms

• erfpacht
• pachten
• pachter
• pachthoeve
• pachthuis
• pachtgeld
• pachtgrond
• pachtsom

Descendants

• → Indonesian: pak (“lease right”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pacht

1. inflection of pachten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Kashubian

Alternative forms

• pachta (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pacht. Compare Polish pacht and Slovincian pacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaxt/
• Rhymes: -axt
• Syllabification: pacht

Noun

pacht m inan

1. lease

Declension

Declension of pacht

	singular	plural
nominative	pacht	pachtë
genitive	pachtu	pachtów
dative	pachtowi	pachtóm
accusative	pacht	pachtë
instrumental	pachtã	pachtama
locative	pachce	pachtach
vocative	pachce	pachtë

Further reading

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “dzierżawa”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “dzierżawa”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “pacht”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Masurian

Alternative forms

• pachta

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish pacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaxt/
• Rhymes: -axt
• Syllabification: pacht

Noun

pacht m inan

1. lease
2. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. entitlement, authority, right

Further reading

• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “pacht, pachta”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 6, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 7

Old Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German pfaht. First attested in 1425. Doublet of pakt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /paxt/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /paxt/

Noun

pacht m animacy unattested

1. (attested in Greater Poland) lease fee
   • 1877-1999 [1425], Franciszek Piekosiński, Antoni Gąsiorowski, Henryk Kowalewicz, Ryszard Walczak, Tomasz Jasiński, Izabela Skierska, editors, Kodeks dyplomatyczny Wielkopolski. Codex diplomaticus Maioris Poloniae [Diplomatic Code of Greater Poland], volume XI, Greater Poland, page 228:

     Dedimus etiam praefato... quinquaginta arbores pro refformatione mellicaparum et libere... possidere, sed si praedictus scultetus... plures arbores refformaverit quam quinquaginta..., extunc dare debent dationem al. pacht ad curiam secundum consuetudinem ipsorum laborantium al. barthodzieiew

     [Dedimus etiam praefato... quinquaginta arbores pro refformatione mellicaparum et libere... possidere, sed si praedictus scultetus... plures arbores refformaverit quam quinquaginta..., extunc dare debent dationem al. pacht ad curiam secundum consuetudinem ipsorum laborantium al. bartodziejew]

Descendants

• Masurian: pacht
• Polish: pacht
• Silesian: pacht

References

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “pacht”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Alternative forms

• pachta (regional)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish pacht. Doublet of pakt. Compare Kashubian pacht and Slovincian pacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paxt/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈpaxt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -axt
• Syllabification: pacht

Noun

pacht m inan (related adjective pachtowy)

1. (archaic except in set phrases) Synonym of dzierżawa
2. (obsolete) lease (that what a leaser gains from a lease)
3. (obsolete) lease (payment for a lease)
4. (obsolete) place or room set aside for a leaser

Declension

Declension of pacht

	singular	plural
nominative	pacht	pachty
genitive	pachtu	pachtów
dative	pachtowi	pachtom
accusative	pacht	pachty
instrumental	pachtem	pachtami
locative	pachcie	pachtach
vocative	pachcie	pachty

Noun

pacht m pers

1. (obsolete) Synonym of dzierżawca

Declension

Declension of pacht

	singular	plural
nominative	pacht	pachci/pachty (deprecative)
genitive	pachta	pachtów
dative	pachtowi	pachtom
accusative	pachta	pachtów
instrumental	pachtem	pachtami
locative	pachcie	pachtach
vocative	pachcie	pachci

Derived terms

nouns

• pachciarz

 

verbs

• pachtować impf

 

verbs

• oddać w pacht pf, oddawać w pacht impf
• wziąć w pacht pf, brać w pacht impf

 

Related terms

adjecetives

• pachciarski

 

Further reading

• pacht in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “pacht”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “PACHT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “pacht”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “pacht”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pacht”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 4

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish pacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaxt/
• Rhymes: -axt
• Syllabification: pacht

Noun

pacht m inan

1. lease

   Synonyms: harynda, nŏjym

Further reading

• Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “pacht”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 464
• Eugeniusz Kosmała (2023) “dzierżawa”, in Dykcjōnôrz Polsko-Ślonskiy (in Silesian), section D, page 132

Slovincian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pacht. Compare Kashubian pacht and Polish pacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaxt/
• Rhymes: -axt
• Syllabification: pacht

Noun

pacht m inan (related adjective pachtôwy)

1. lease

Further reading

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1912) “pãχt”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[3] (in German), volume 2, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 740