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		Definition of kisan in English: kisannoun kɪˈsɑːnkiˈsän Indian An agricultural worker; a peasant.  Example sentencesExamples -  That spells good news not only for the kisan but for the entire populace.
 -  Singh argues that the kisans, the peasants, have been active in changing their situation.
 -  The rest of us, the small kisans, are doing very badly.
 -  Schools and shops closed: milkmaids and cowherds had taken a holiday; the kisan and his helpmate took a temporary respite from their dawn-to-dusk programme of hard work in field and home.
 -  The banks could provide microfinance to the kisan to buy livestock, chickens and equipment.
 
 
 Origin   1930s: Hindi kisān, from Sanskrit kṛṣāṇa 'person who ploughs'.    Definition of kisan in US English: kisannounkiˈsän Indian An agricultural worker; a peasant.  Example sentencesExamples -  Singh argues that the kisans, the peasants, have been active in changing their situation.
 -  That spells good news not only for the kisan but for the entire populace.
 -  The banks could provide microfinance to the kisan to buy livestock, chickens and equipment.
 -  The rest of us, the small kisans, are doing very badly.
 -  Schools and shops closed: milkmaids and cowherds had taken a holiday; the kisan and his helpmate took a temporary respite from their dawn-to-dusk programme of hard work in field and home.
 
 
 Origin   1930s: Hindi kisān, from Sanskrit kṛṣāṇa ‘person who plows’.     |