Meaning of دهقان | Babel Free

Definitions

1. farmer, peasant
2. a surname, Dehqan, Dehghan, Dihqan, or Dihkan
3. dihqan (local aristocrat in late Sasanian and early Islamic Iran)
   historical
4. Persian, Iranian (as opposed to Arabs and Turks)
   broadly, obsolete

Examples

“دهقان سالخورده چه خوش گفت با پسر کای نور چشم من! بهجز از کشته ندروی”

How well the aged peasant spoke to his son: "O light of my eyes! You reap nothing but what was planted."

“به هر صورت درست است که مشخصّات دقیق یک زلزله را باید از زلزلهسنج دانشگاه پرسید، امّا پیش از این که زلزلهسنج، چیزی ضبط کند اسب دهقان، اگرچه نانجیب هم باشد، گریخته است و سر به بیابان امن گذاشته[…]”

It is true in any case that the university seismograph must be consulted for the exact details of an earthquake, but before the seismograph has recorded a thing, the peasant's horse, though not at all a noble animal, will already have fled and set off for the safe wilderness […]

“نه بازارگان ماند ایدر نه شاه نه دهقان نه لشکر نه تخت و کلاه”

No merchant remained there, nor a king, No lord nor army nor throne and crown.

“نه دهقان نه ترک و نه تازی بود سخنها به کردار بازی بود”

They will be neither Persian nor Turk nor Arab, Their words will be in the manner of a joke.

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