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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryany of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes
From Sanskrit वर्ण (várṇa, “colour, tint, dye, pigment, appearance, aspect”), from verbal root वृणोति (vṛṇoti, “to choose, select”).
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- Unspecified derivation mentionवर्णsa
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