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Adivasi

Adivasi noun: a member of a heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups considered the aboriginal population of South Asia.

Noun

Adivasi (plural Adivasis or Adivasi)

  1. A member of a heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups considered the aboriginal population of South Asia.
    • These new set of decisions may or may not be put into operation, but the process of constructing suspicion and othering of the Jummas is already in place. Jummas cannot be called “adibashis", Jummas cannot be recognised in the constitution, Jummas have to be called “khudro nri-goshthi"...2017 May 2, "Can the Jummas of Bangladesh speak?", Jumjournal

Adivasi meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Gujarati

Adivasi in Hindi

member of the tribal groups considered the aboriginal population of South Asia
आदिवासी ādivāsī

Adivasi in Bengali

member of the tribal groups considered the aboriginal population of South Asia
আদিবাসী adibaśi

Adivasi in Malayalam

member of the tribal groups considered the aboriginal population of South Asia
ആദിവാസി ādivāsi

Adivasi in Gujarati

Adivasi
આદિવાસી ādivāsī

Forms of Adivasi

pluralAdivasis
pluralAdivasi
alternative formAdibasi

Origin of Adivasi

From New Sanskrit आदिवासी (ādivāsī).

Questions about Adivasi

What does Adivasi mean?
Adivasi means a member of a heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups considered the aboriginal population of South Asia.
What is Adivasi in Hindi?
Adivasi in Hindi is आदिवासी (ādivāsī). See Adivasi meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Adivasi?
Adivasi is a noun.
What is the plural of Adivasi?
The plural of Adivasi is Adivasis.

Words near Adivasi in the dictionary

  1. adits
  2. aditus
  3. Aditya
  4. Adityas
  5. Adiv
  6. Adivasi
  7. Adivasis
  8. Adivay
  9. adive
  10. adives
  11. ADIZ

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Adivasi (page history and authors); આદિવાસી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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