rayah

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the tax-paying lower class of Ottoman society.

Word forms

rayah rayahs raya

Etymology

From Turkish reaya, from Arabic رَعَايَا (raʕāyā), plural of رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

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