The story
- Arabic · derived fromرَعِيَّة“flock, herd”
- Classical Persian · derived fromرعیت“peasants; population”
- Urdu · borrowed fromرَعِیَّت“peasant”
- English todayraiyat
Borrowed from Urdu رَعِیَّت (ra'iyat, “peasant”), from Classical Persian رعیت (ra'iyyat, “peasants; population”), from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya, “flock, herd”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.