‖ haˈratch
Also harach, haratsh.
The same as caratch, the poll-tax levied by the Turks on their Christian subjects.
| 1745 R. Pococke Trav. in Pinkerton Voy. (1811) X. 729 (Stanf.) The galleys go out every summer round the islands to collect the harach or Christian poll tax. 1813 Byron Br. Abydos ii. xx. note, ‘Rayahs’,—all who pay the capitation tax, called the ‘Haratch’. 1884 W. Carr Montenegro 27 note, To escape the haratch and the tribute of children. |