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Etymology
From Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), of uncertain origin. The OED derives it from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus. Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (kasts), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz
Pronunciation
Noun
caste (plural castes)
- Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
Hyponyms
Translations
hereditary social class
- Arabic: طبقة (ar) (Tábaqa) f, طبقية (ar) (Tabaqíyya) f (system)
- Armenian: կաստա (hy) (kasta)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Balinese: please add this translation if you can
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: каста (bg) (kasta) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 種姓 (cmn), 种姓 (cmn) (zhǒngxìng) (種姓制度, 种姓制度, (zhǒngxìng zhìdù) - system)
- Czech: kasta (cs) f
- Danish: kaste (da)
- Dutch: kaste (nl) m and f
- Esperanto: kasto (eo)
- Finnish: kasti (fi)
- French: caste (fr) f
- German: Kaste (de) f
- Gujarati: જાત (gu) (jāt) f, જાતિ (gu) (jāti) f, નાત (gu) (nāt) f, ન્યાત (gu) (nyāt) f, વર્ણ (gu) (var.n) f, જ્ઞાતિ (gu) (gnyāti) f, કોળી (gu) (ko.lī) f
- Hebrew: קאסטה (he) (kasta) f
- Hindi: वर्ण (hi) (varṇ) m, जाति (hi) (jāti) f, जात (hi) (jāt) f, वर्णाश्रम (hi) (varṇāśram) m, खेत (hi) (khet) m, कुल (hi) (kul) m, न्याति (hi) (nyāti) f
- Hungarian: kaszt (hu)
- Indonesian: kasta (id)
- Italian: casta (it) f
- Japanese: カースト (ja) (kāsuto), ジャーティ (ja) (jāti)
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
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- Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 카스트 (ko) (kaseuteu), 카스트제도 (ko) (kaseuteujedo)
- Malay: kasta (ms), warna (ms)
- Malayalam: ജാതി (ml), വര്ണ്ണം (ml), കുലം (ml), കൂട്ടം (ml), ഗോത്രം (ml)
- Maori: tātai (mi)
- Marathi: जात-जमात (mr)
- Nepali: काय (ne) (kāya)
- Norwegian: kaste (no) m
- Oriya: ଜାତି (or)
- Persian: کاست (fa) (kāst), طبقه (fa) (tabaqe), ذات (fa) (zāt), نسل (fa) (nasl)
- Polish: kasta (pl) f
- Portuguese: casta (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਜਾਤਿ (pa)
- Russian: каста (ru) (kásta) f, варна (ru) (várna) f
- Sanskrit: वर्ण (sa) (varṇa), जाति (sa) (jāti) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: каста (sh) f
- Roman: kasta (sh) f
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: casta (es) f
- Swedish: kast (sv) n
- Tamil: சாதி (ta)
- Telugu: కులము (te) వర్ణము (varnamu)
- Turkish: kast (tr)
- Urdu: جات (ur) (jāt) f, ذات (ur) (zāt) f, ورناشرم (ur) (varṇāśram) m, کھیت (ur) (khet) m, کل (ur) (kul) m, نیات (ur) (nyāti) f
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