دہقان

See also: دهقان

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دِهْقَان (dihqān, “peasant, farmer; villager”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪eːɦ.qɑːn/, /d̪ɪɦ.qɑːn/, /d̪əɦ.qɑːn/

Noun

دِہْقان or دَہْقان • (dihqān or dahqān) m (Hindi spelling दिहक़ान)

1. farmer; peasant; villager
2. (rare) landlord

Derived terms

• دِہقانی (“rustic”)
• دِہقانِیَت (“rural, folksy”)
• تارِیخِ دَہْقان (tārīx-i dahqān, “Iranic legends”)

Related terms

• دہ (deh, “village”)

References

• “دہقان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دہقان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.