raiyat
English
Alternative forms
- raiat
- ryot
Etymology
From Urdu رعیت (ra'iyat, “peasant”), from Persian رعیت (ra'eyat, “population, peasants”), from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʿiyya, “flock, herd”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹaɪət/
Noun
raiyat (plural raiyats or raiyat)
- A peasant or agricultural labourer in South Asia.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Education of Otis Yeere’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 15:
- They are simply the rank-and-file – the food for fever – sharing with the ryot and the plough-bullock the honour of being the plinth on which the State rests.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Education of Otis Yeere’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 15:
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