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Etymology of Yadav

Transliteration of Hindi यादव (yādav), Nepali यादव (yādav).

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Unnumbered source etymology

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name

A surname from Sanskrit.

noun

A member of a grouping of traditionally non-elite, cow headers and peasant-pastoral grazing communities or castes in the Indian Subcontinent. · A given (surname) reassembled with Other backward community in union of Indian states.

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Transliteration of Hindi यादव (yādav), Nepali यादव (yādav).

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