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clan meaning in Sanskrit

कुल kúla

UK/klæn/

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British/klan/

clan in Sanskrit: कुल (kúla). In English, clan means a group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.

Sanskrit words for clan

clan
कुल kúla

English meaning of clan

  1. noun A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
  2. noun A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
  3. noun Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
  4. noun Traditional main matrilineal subunit of the Minangkabau people (suku) esp. in Negeri Sembilan.

Full definition of clan

clan in a sentence

  • Near-synonym: canton (uncommon outside of certain dialects)

Synonyms of clan

clan in other languages

Questions about clan in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of clan in Sanskrit?
Clan in Sanskrit is कुल (kúla).
clan इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Clan: कुल (kúla).
What does clan mean in English?
Clan means a group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.

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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “clan”: कुल. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: clan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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