Tanım
•farmer, peasant · dihqan (local aristocrat in late Sasanian and early Islamic Iran) · Persian, Iranian (as opposed to Arabs and Turks)
Etimoloji
The form from Arabic دِهْقَان (dihqān), from Middle Persian [script needed] (dhywkʾn' /dahigān/, “countryman, farmer”), also found as دهگان (dehgân) and دهخان (dehxân). By surface analysis, ده (deh, “village”) + ـگان (-gân, “pertaining to, -er”). Akin to Old Armenian դեհկան-ութիւն (dehkan-utʻiwn), Classical Syriac ܕܗܩܢܐ (dahqānā).