•dalit (outcasts within traditional Hindu society, falling outside the fourfold varna system, historically often segregated and/or occupying unprestigious jobs involving cleaning or handling of waste or remains)
köken: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit दलित (dalita, “broken, destroyed, split”), originally an adjectival form of दलन (dalana, “splitting, destruction”), from the root दल् (dal, “to split, crack”). Semantic loan from Marathi दलित (dalit).
köken: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit दलित (dalita, “broken, destroyed, split”), originally an adjectival form of दलन (dalana, “splitting, destruction”), from the root दल् (dal, “to split, crack”).
köken: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit दलित (dalita, “broken, destroyed, split”), originally an adjectival form of दलन (dalana, “splitting, destruction”), from the root दल् (dal, “to split, crack”). Sense 1 was coined by Indian social activist Jyotirao Phule 19th century.