Word.ws English Dictionary

peasant meaning in Sanskrit

वैश्य váiśya

/ˈpɛzənt/

peasant in Sanskrit: वैश्य (váiśya). In English, peasant means 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.

Sanskrit words for peasant

a peasant or "working man", agriculturist
वैश्य váiśya

English meaning of peasant

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A country person.
  3. noun An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
  4. noun A worker unit.

Full definition of peasant

Synonyms of peasant

All synonyms of peasant

peasant in other languages

Questions about peasant in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of peasant in Sanskrit?
Peasant in Sanskrit is वैश्य (váiśya).
peasant इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Peasant: वैश्य (váiśya).
What does peasant mean in English?
Peasant means 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.

Source and license

Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “peasant”: वैश्य. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: peasant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-peasant.ogg.

Cite this page: “peasant meaning in Sanskrit.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sanskrit/peasant. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.