Bahujan
Bahujan noun: a person in South Asia that is caste oppressed or a religious minority.
Noun
Bahujan (plural Bahujans)
- a person in South Asia that is caste oppressed or a religious minority.
Bahujan meaning in Hindi, Gujarati and Sanskrit
Bahujan in Hindi
- Translations
- बहुजन bahujan
Bahujan in Gujarati
- Bahujan
- બહુજન bahujan
Bahujan in Sanskrit
- Translations
- बहुजन bahujana
Forms of Bahujan
| plural | Bahujans |
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Origin of Bahujan
Borrowed from Sanskrit बहुजन (bahujana) / Pali bahujana (“majority”) as caste oppressed people are the majority of the population. The term was popularized by anti-caste social activists.
Questions about Bahujan
- What does Bahujan mean?
- Bahujan means a person in South Asia that is caste oppressed or a religious minority.
- What is Bahujan in Hindi?
- Bahujan in Hindi is बहुजन (bahujan). See Bahujan meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Bahujan?
- Bahujan is a noun.
- What is the plural of Bahujan?
- The plural of Bahujan is Bahujans.
Words near Bahujan in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Bahujan (page history and authors); બહુજન (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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