English
Noun
paisan (plural paisans)
- Alternative form of paisano
- 1960, Lou Monte, Dominick the Donkey
- When Santa visits his paisans with Dominick he'll be, because the reindeers cannot climb the hills of Italy.
Old French
Alternative forms
- paisant (Chanson de Roland)
- païsan (diaereses are used in some scholarly transcriptions)
Etymology
From païs (“countryside”).
Noun
paisan m (oblique plural paisans, nominative singular paisans, nominative plural paisan)
- peasant (non-noble person)
Synonyms
Declension
Declension of paisan
| Number
|
Case
|
Masculine
|
Feminine
|
| Singular
|
Subject
|
paisans |
paisane |
| Oblique
|
paisan |
paisane |
| Plural
|
Subject
|
paisan |
paisanes |
| Oblique
|
paisans |
paisanes |
Descendants