rahvas
Finnish
pronunciation
Definitions
- (relatively) The peasantry, common/ordinary people/folks, lower-class people (often used of those people in the past, in distinction from the rich and/or influential proportion of a people), the riff-raff, proletariat, lumpenproletariat
- (playfully) people, folks
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Finnic *rahvas derived from Proto-Germanic *þrawwaz (full-grown).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*þrawwaz
Gloss
full-grown