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Soudra

Soudra 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 Soudra

pluralSoudras

Questions about Soudra

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

Words near Soudra in the dictionary

  1. Souder
  2. Souders
  3. soudjouk
  4. soudjouks
  5. Soudleyan
  6. Soudra
  7. Soudras
  8. Soueida
  9. souesite
  10. soufflage
  11. souffle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Soudra (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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