caste meaning in Sanskrit
वर्ण várṇa
UK/kɑːst/
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caste in Sanskrit: वर्ण (várṇa), जाति (jāti). In English, caste means any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
Sanskrit words for caste
- hereditary social class
- वर्ण várṇa, जाति jāti
English meaning of caste
- noun Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
- noun A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
- noun The division of society into castes; the caste system.
- noun A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
caste in a sentence
- In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.
caste in other languages
- caste in Hindi
- caste in Tamil
- caste in Marathi
- caste in Urdu
- caste in Bengali
- caste in Telugu
- caste in Malayalam
- caste in Kannada
- caste in Punjabi
- caste in Gujarati
- caste in Odia
- caste in Sinhala
- caste in Assamese
- caste in Nepali
- caste in Arabic
- caste in Malay
- caste in Indonesian
- caste in Persian
- caste in Thai
- caste in Vietnamese
- caste in Myanmar
Questions about caste in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of caste in Sanskrit?
- Caste in Sanskrit is वर्ण (várṇa), जाति (jāti).
- caste इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Caste: वर्ण (várṇa), जाति (jāti).
- What does caste mean in English?
- Caste means any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
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