caste

Etymology
Borrowed from or, of uncertain origin. The OED derives it from Portuguese, from. Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical form, cognate with 🇨🇬, from Proto-Germanic , from.

Noun

 * 1) Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
 * 2) A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
 * 3)  A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
 * 1) A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
 * 2)  A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
 * 1)  A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
 * 1)  A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
 * 1)  A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

Translations

 * Arabic: طَبَقَة, طَبَقِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: বৰ্ণ
 * Azerbaijani: kasta
 * Balinese: kasta, linggih
 * Belarusian: ка́ста
 * Bengali: জাত, ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ;
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kasto
 * Estonian: kast
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: casta
 * Georgian: კასტა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: જાત, જાતિ, નાત, ન્યાત, વર્ણ,, કોળી
 * Hebrew: קאסטה
 * Hindi:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , नस्ल,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: erfðastétt
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: カースト, ジャーティ
 * Kannada: ,
 * Kashmiri:
 * Kazakh: каста
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 카스트제도
 * Lao: ວັນນະ
 * Latvian: kasta
 * Lithuanian: kasta
 * Macedonian: каста
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:, വര്‍ണ്ണം, , ,
 * Maori: tātai
 * Marathi: जात-जमात
 * Mongolian: каст
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Odia:
 * Pali: vaṇṇa, jāti
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਜਾਤਿ
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ка̏ста
 * Roman:
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: kasta
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: каста
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: جات,, ورناشرم, کھیت, کل, نیات
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: קאַסטע

Etymology
, if of origin, possibly from, from , from , similar to 🇨🇬. Or, alternatively from a derivative of.

Noun

 * 1)  (hereditary class)
 * 2) class (social position)

Etymology
Probably from, from , , compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) species, race or kind
 * 2) quality
 * 3) progeny; group of people that share a common ancestor
 * 1) progeny; group of people that share a common ancestor
 * 1) progeny; group of people that share a common ancestor

Etymology 1
From.

Adverb

 * 1) purely, spotlessly, virtuously
 * 2) piously, religiously

Etymology 2
Inflected form of.