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Complete Definition of "caste"

English

Etymology
Via Spanish or Portuguese casta for “lineage”, “breed” or “race”, from Latin casta, the feminine form of casto, “pure”.

Pronunciation
AHD|käst, IPA|/kɑːst/, SAMPA|/kA:st/

Noun
wikipedia
en-noun

  1. Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian society|societies.

Translations

Arabic: Arab|طبقة|طَبَقَة, Arab|صنف|صِنْف
trreq|Balinese
trreq|Bengali
Bosnian: kasta f
Bulgarian: каста f
Chinese: 種姓制度, 种姓制度 (zhǒng xìng zhì dù)
Croatian: kasta
Danish: kaste#Danish|kaste
Dutch: kaste m|f
Esperanto: kasto
Finnish: kasti
French caste f
German: Kaste f
Gujarati: જાત (jāt) f, જાતિ (jāti) f, નાત (nāt) f, ન્યાત (nyāt) f, વર્ણ (var.n) f, જ્ઞાતિ (gnyāti) f, કોળી (ko.lī) f
Hebrew: קאסטה g|Hebrew
Hindi: जात (jāt) f, जाति (jāti) f, वर्णाश्रम (var.nāśram) m, खेत (khet) m, कुल (kul) m, न्याति (nyāti) f
Indonesian: kasta
Italian: casta f
Japanese: カースト (kasuto)
trreq|Kannada
Malay: kasta, warna
mid
trreq|Malayalam
Maori: tātai
trreq|Marathi
trreq|Nepali
Norwegian: kaste m
trreq|Oriya
Persian: fa-Arab|کاست (kāst), fa-Arab|طبقه (tabaqe), fa-Arab|ذات (zāt), fa-Arab|نسل (nasl)
Polish: kasta f
Portuguese: casta f
trreq|Punjabi
Russian: каста (kásta) f
trreq|Sanskrit
Serbian:

Spanish: casta f
Swedish: kast n
Tamil: சாதி
trreq|Telugu
Turkish: kast
Urdu: ur-Arab|جات (jāt) f, ur-Arab|ذات (zāt) f, ur-Arab|ورناشرم (var.nāśram) m, ur-Arab|کھیت (khet) m, ur-Arab|کل (kul) m, ur-Arab|نیات (nyāti) f

Translations to be checked
ttbc|Czech: kast

See also
w:List of Indian castes|List of Indian castes in Wikipedia
Brahmin
Kshatriya
Shudra
Vaishya
varna

Category:Hinduism
Category:Portuguese derivations
Category:Spanish derivations


Italian

Noun
caste f

  1. plural of|casta

Category:Italian nouns

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