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Varna

//ˈvɜːnə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in northeastern Bulgaria.
Noun
  1. 1
    any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes Hinduism
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of varna. alt-of
  3. 3
    (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) wordnet

Etymology

From Sanskrit वर्ण (várṇa, “colour, tint, dye, pigment, appearance, aspect”), from verbal root वृणोति (vṛṇoti, “to choose, select”).

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