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A caste (or member of this caste) in Indian society, originally comprising drummers or travelling musicians and now generally referring to a Dalitsubcaste responsible for the cremation and disposal of dead bodies.
2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 2:
Chand Ghat, where Dolly lives, is primarily a Dom neighbourhood, home to a small community of corpse-burners.
The modern alteration Dom follows Middle Frenchdome, from Italianduomo, from the Latin. It was probably reinforced by the inherited Middle Low German form (see above).Thum survived longest in the south. The Dutch cognate dom was similarly influenced by French.
^ „Dom“, in Pfeifer, Wolfgang et al.: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache.
^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “dom1”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
honorific title usually used before a man's name, equivalent to SpanishDon; it has historically been used by members of the high nobility in Portugal and Brazil