Khatri

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of the second-highest of the four castes or varnas in traditional Punjabi society.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname of people of the Kshatriya order in Nepali Khas society.

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"Purvesh Khatri, a professor of medicine at Stanford, helped develop the biomarker test, which looks at which genes are switched on or off, depending on the infection."

Etymology

From Punjabi ਖਤਰੀ (khatrī), Hindi खत्री (khatrī), Nepali खत्री (khatrī).

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