Shudra
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Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit शूद्र (śūdra), a variant of क्षुद्र (kṣudra, “small, diminutive”).
Noun
Shudra (plural Shudras)
- A member of the Hindu varna (caste) of workers.
- 1951 October, Helen Mayer Hacker, “Women as Minority Group”, in Howard W. Odum, Katherine Jocher, editors, Social Forces, volume 30, number 1, Williams & Wilkins, , page 60:
- A Sudra knows that his lot in life has been cast by divine fiat, and he does not expect the perquisites of a Brahmin.
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Translations
a Hindu of the fourth varna