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raiat

raiat is the alternative form of raiyat.

Meaning of raiyat

Noun

raiyat (plural raiyats or raiyat)

  1. A peasant or agricultural labourer in South Asia.
    • In Ireland Paddy makes riots, in Bengal raiyats make paddy; and in this lies the difference between the paddy of green Bengal and Paddy of the Emerald Isle.1874, Lál Behári Day, Govinda Sámanta, or the history of a Bengal Ráiyat

Forms of raiat

pluralraiats

Questions about raiat

What is raiat the alternative form of?
Raiat is the alternative form of raiyat.

Words near raiat in the dictionary

  1. Rai Sahibs
  2. rai stone
  3. rai stones
  4. raia
  5. raias
  6. raiat
  7. Raiatea
  8. raiats
  9. raiatwari
  10. RAIB
  11. Raible

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raiat (page history and authors); raiyat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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