# peasant
## English
### Etymology

From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Old French païsant, païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Latin pāgus (“district”) + Old French -enc (“member of”), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing"; which was an alteration of earlier Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”). Doublet of paisano.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛzənt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛzənt

### Noun

peasant (plural peasants)
* A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
    Synonyms: peon, serf
** 1986, Martin Kitchen, British Policy Towards the Soviet Union during the Second World War‎, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:The Ambassador warned him of the consequences if his mission to Moscow were a failure, both to Churchill's position at home and to Russia's prospects in the war. He insisted that he should not allow himself to be offended 'by a peasant who didn't know any better'. Churchill listened in silence, then returned to the dacha leaving Clark Kerr outside.
* A country person.
    Synonyms: churl, rustic, villager
* (derogatory) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
    Synonyms: boor; see also Thesaurus:country bumpkin
* (strategy games) A worker unit.

#### Derived terms

* peasant blouse
* peasantless
* peasantly
* peasantry
* peasant shirt
* peasant top
* peasantwear
* Russian peasant multiplication

#### Translations

Afrikaans: boer (af)
Albanian: katundar (sq) m, katundare (sq) f, fshatar (sq) m, fshatare (sq) f
Arabic: فَلَّاح m (fallāḥ), فَلَّاحَة f (fallāḥa)
Armenian: գյուղացի (hy) (gyuġacʻi)
Asturian: campesín m, llabriegu m
Azerbaijani: kəndli (az), əkinçi
Belarusian: селя́нін m (sjeljánin), селя́нка f (sjeljánka), сялю́к m (sjaljúk)
Bengali: চাষী (caśi)
Breton: kouer (br) m
Bulgarian: се́лянин (bg) m (séljanin), се́лянка f (séljanka)
Burmese: တောင်သူလယ်သမား (my) (taungsulaisa.ma:)
Buryat: таряашан (tarjaašan)
Catalan: camperol (ca), pagès (ca) m
Cebuano: mag-uuma
Chechen: ахархо (axarxo)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 農夫 / 农夫 (nung$^4$ fu$^1$), 農民 / 农民 (nung$^4$ man$^4$)
Mandarin: 農夫 / 农夫 (zh) (nóngfū), 農民 / 农民 (zh) (nóngmín)
Wu: 農夫 / 农夫 ($^6$non-fu), 農民 / 农民 ($^6$non-min)
Coptic: ϭⲣⲏ m (crē)
Czech: rolník (cs) m, rolnice f, sedlák (cs) m, selka f, sedlačka f
Dalmatian: čoc m
Danish: bonde (da) c
Dutch: boer (nl) m, landarbeider (nl) m, landbouwer (nl) m, landman (nl) m
Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
Egyptian: (sḫtj)
Esperanto: kamparano
Estonian: talupoeg
Finnish: pienviljelijä, torppari (fi)
French: paysan (fr) m, paysanne (fr) f
Galician: labrego m, labrega f
Georgian: გლეხი (ka) (glexi)
German: Landleute (plural), Landvolk (plural), Landmann. (armer (de)) Bauer (de) m, (arme (de)) Bäuerin (de) f, (arme (de)) Bauernschaft f (collective), Bauerntum (de) n (class), Kleinbauer (de) m, Kleinbäuerin (de) f
Greek: χωρικός (el) m (chorikós), χωρική (el) f (chorikí), χωριάτα (el) f (choriáta)
Hebrew: אִכָּר (he) m (ikár), חַקְלַאי (he) m (khaklá'i), חַקְלַאית f
Hindi: किसान (hi) m (kisān)
Hungarian: gazdálkodó (hu), földműves (hu), paraszt (hu)
Icelandic: bóndi (is) m
Indonesian: petani (id)
Istriot: cuntadeîn m
Italian: contadino (it) m, contadina (it) f, cafone (it) m, cafona (it) f
Japanese: 小作人 (ja) (こさくにん, kosakunin), 農民 (ja) (のうみん, nōmin), 農夫 (ja) (のうふ, nōfu), 小百姓 (こびゃくしょう, kobyakushō), 百姓 (ja) (ひゃくしょう, hyakushō)
Kapampangan: maluka
Kazakh: шаруа (şarua), диқан (diqan)
Khakas: кресен (kresen)
Khmer: កសិករ (km) (kaʼsekɑɑ)
Korean: 농부(農夫) (ko) (nongbu), 농민(農民) (ko) (nongmin), 농사꾼 (nongsakkun)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: gundî (ku) m, cotkar (ku) m, cotyar (ku) m
Kyrgyz: дыйкан (ky) (dıykan)
Lao: ຊາວນາ (sāo nā), ກະສິກອນ (lo) (ka si kǭn), ຄົນບ້ານນອກ (khon bān nǭk)
Latin: rūsticus (la) m, agricola (la) m
Latvian: zemnieks m, zemniece f
Lithuanian: valstietis (lt) m, valstietė f
Macedonian: селанец m (selanec), селанка f (selanka)
Malay: petani (ms)
Maori: kaimahi whenua
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тариачин (mn) (tariačin)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bonde (no) m
Nynorsk: bonde m
Ottoman Turkish: دهقان (dihkân)
Pashto: بزګر m (bazgar), دهقان m (dehqān), کسان m (kasān)
Persian:
Dari: دِهْقَان (dihqān)
Iranian Persian: دِهْقان (dehğân)
Polabian: bör m
Polish: chłop (pl) m, chłopka (pl) f, włościanin m, włościanka f, rolnik (pl) m, rolniczka f
Portuguese: camponês (pt) m, camponesa f
Romanian: țăran (ro) m, țărancă (ro) f
Russian: крестья́нин (ru) m (krestʹjánin), крестья́нка (ru) f (krestʹjánka), селя́нин (ru) m (seljánin), селя́нка (ru) f (seljánka), (historical) мужи́к (ru) m (mužík), дехка́нин (ru) m (dɛxkánin), дехка́нка (ru) f (dɛxkánka) (Central Asia or Iran)
Scottish Gaelic: tuathanach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сѐља̄к m, сѐља̄нка f, кме̏т m, кмѐтица f
Roman: sèljāk (sh) m, sèljānka (sh) f, kmȅt (sh) m, kmètica (sh) f
Sinhalese: ගොවි (gowi)
Slovak: roľník m, roľníca f, sedliak m, sedliačka f
Slovene: kmet (sl) m, kmetica f
Southern Altai: крестьян (krestʹyan)
Spanish: campesino (es) m, guajiro (es) m, guaso m, huaso (es) m, campesina (es) f, payés (es) m
Swahili: falahi (sw)
Swedish: bonde (sv) c
Tajik: деҳқон (tg) (dehqon)
Tatar: игенче (tt) (igençe), крестьян (krest’yan)
Thai: ชาวนา (th) (chaao-naa), ไพร่ (th) (prâi)
Tibetan: ཞིང་པ (zhing pa)
Turkish: köylü (tr), taşralı (tr), ekinci (tr)
Turkmen: daýhan
Tuvan: тараачын (taraaçın)
Ukrainian: селя́нин (uk) m (seljányn), селя́нка f (seljánka), селю́к m (seljúk)
Urdu: کِسان m (kisān), دَہْقان m (dahqān), دِہْقان m (dihqān), رَعِیَتْ f (ra'iyat)
Uyghur: دېھقان (dëhqan)
Uzbek: dehqon (uz)
Venetan: contadin (vec) m
Vietnamese: nông dân (vi) (農民)
Volapük: feilan (vo)
Votic: talopoikõ
Yakut: бааһынай (baahınay)
Yiddish: פּויער m (poyer)
Zhuang: nungzminz :
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### Adjective

peasant (not comparable)
* (attributive) Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.
    peasant class
** 2007, Brad Bird, Ratatouille, spoken by Colette
    Ratatouille? It's a peasant dish. Are you sure you want to serve this to Ego?
* (obsolete, derogatory) Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 520:Oh what a Rogue and Pesant slave am I?

### Further reading

* "peasant" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 231.

### Anagrams

* patenas, Pestana, Patanes, Tapanes, taepans, anapest