लगान

From लगाना (lagānā, “to apply”).

• IPA^(key): /lə.ɡɑːn/

लगान • (lagān) f

1. rent
2. (historical) a share of the harvest or amount of money paid to a zamindar regularly; a tax
   • 1936, Premchand, Godaan

     उसका विचार था कि हमने ज़मींदार के खेत जोते हैं, तो वह अपना लगान ही तो लेगा।

     uskā vicār thā ki hamne zamīndār ke khet jote ha͠i, to vah apnā lagān hī to legā.

     She thought that if we had to plow the zamindar's land, then he surely had to take his lagaan.

3. moor, stopping point

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “लगान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press