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Sanskrit
Etymology
From सम्- (sam-) + कर (kara).
Noun
संकर • (saṃkara) stem, m
- mixing together, commingling, intermixture confusion (esp. of castes or races, proceeding from the intermarriage of a man with a woman of a higher caste or from the promiscuous intercourse of the four tribes, and again from the indiscriminate cohabitation of their descendants)
- the offspring of a mixed marriage
- any action similar to the intermixture of castes
- (rhetoric) the confusion or blending together of metaphors which ought to be kept distinct
- anything that may be defiled by the touch of any unclean thing
Descendants