Hinajati, Hīnajāti, Hina-jati: 7 definitions
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Marathi-English dictionary
hīnajāti (हीनजाति).—a S hīnavarṇa a S Of low caste.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Hīnajāti (हीनजाति).—a.
1) of a low caste.
2) excommunicated, outcaste, degraded; हीनजातिस्त्रियं मोहादुद्बहन्तो द्विजातयः । कुलान्येव नयन्त्याशु संसतानानि शूद्रताम् (hīnajātistriyaṃ mohādudbahanto dvijātayaḥ | kulānyeva nayantyāśu saṃsatānāni śūdratām) || Manusmṛti 3.15.
Hīnajāti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms hīna and jāti (जाति).
Hīnajāti (हीनजाति).—mfn. (-tiḥ-tiḥ-ti) Outcaste, vile, degraded. E. hīna abandoned, jāti caste.
Hīnajāti (हीनजाति).—(vb. hā), adj. being of the lowest class, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 3, 15; degraded, outcaste.
— Cf. [Latin] gens; [Anglo-Saxon.] cynd; Engl. kind.
Hīnajāti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms hīna and jāti (जाति).
Hīnajāti (हीनजाति).—[adjective] low-born.
Hīnajāti (हीनजाति):—[=hīna-jāti] [from hīna > hā] mfn. of low caste, outcaste, degraded, vile, [Manu-smṛti iii, 15.]
Hīnajāti (हीनजाति):—[hīna-jāti] (tiḥ-tiḥ-ti) a. Outcaste, degraded.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Starts with: Hinajatika.
Full-text: Apakrishtajati, Dashi, Jati.
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