amanaty

Fur traders from the Caucasus, Khiva, Bukhara and Tashkent at a wholesale fair in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 1914

Meaning

Noun

Native American hostages taken by Russian colonists.

Origin

Borrowed from Russian аманат ("hostages"), plural of амана́т, ultimately from Arabic أَمَانَة ("surety").

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