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Soodra

Soodra is the alternative form of Shudra.

Meaning of Shudra

Noun

Shudra (plural Shudras)

  1. A member of the Hindu varna (caste) of workers.
    • A Sudra knows that his lot in life has been cast by divine fiat, and he does not expect the perquisites of a Brahmin.1951 October, Helen Mayer Hacker, “Women as Minority Group”, in Howard W. Odum, Katherine Jocher, editors, Social Forces, volume 30, number 1, Williams & Wilkins, →DOI, page 60

Forms of Soodra

pluralSoodras

Questions about Soodra

What is Soodra the alternative form of?
Soodra is the alternative form of Shudra.

Words near Soodra in the dictionary

  1. Sooders
  2. soodle
  3. soodled
  4. soodles
  5. soodling
  6. Soodra
  7. Soodras
  8. sooee
  9. sooey
  10. Soofee
  11. Soofeeism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Soodra (page history and authors); Shudra (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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