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deghan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
deghan
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small-land-owning citizen of the Sassanian Empire.

Etymology

From Persian دهقان (dehqân, “landowner”) From Middle Persian 𐭣𐭧𐭩𐭥𐭪𐭠𐭭 (dahigān, “countryman, farmer”), originally meaning “pertaining to the Deh”, from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭲𐭠 (deh, “country, land, village”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: دهقان, 𐭣𐭧𐭩𐭥𐭪𐭠𐭭, 𐭬𐭲𐭠

Inflected Forms

deghans (plural) dehgan (alternative) dehkan (alternative) dehqan (alternative)

Questions

What does deghan mean?
A small-land-owning citizen of the Sassanian Empire.
Where does deghan come from?
It is traced to Persian.

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