"Dalit" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɑːlɪt/, /ˈdʌlɪt/ Forms: Dalits [plural]
Etymology: From Hindi दलित (dalit, “downtrodden, oppressed”), from Sanskrit दलित (dalita, “broken, scattered”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|sa|दल्}}, {{bor|en|hi|दलित||downtrodden, oppressed}} Hindi दलित (dalit, “downtrodden, oppressed”), {{der|en|sa|दलित||broken, scattered}} Sanskrit दलित (dalita, “broken, scattered”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} Dalit (plural Dalits)
  1. A member of a South Asian group of people traditionally regarded as untouchables or outcastes. Wikipedia link: Dalit Synonyms: untouchable Related terms: Adivasi, Harijan Translations (person regarded as outcaste): দলিত (dolito) (Bengali), 賤民 (Chinese Mandarin), 贱民 (jiànmín) (Chinese Mandarin), 達利特人 (Chinese Mandarin), 达利特人 (dálìtè rén) (Chinese Mandarin), dalit (Finnish), intouchable [feminine, masculine] (French), paria [feminine, masculine] (French), dalit [masculine] (French), Dalit [masculine] (German), Unberührbarer [masculine] (German), દલિત (dalit) (Gujarati), दलित (dalit) (Hindi), 不可触民 (fukashokumin) (Japanese), 不可触賤民 (fukashoku-senmin) (Japanese), ದಲಿತ (dalita) (Kannada), ദളിതൻ (daḷitaṉ) (Malayalam), दलित (dalit) (Marathi), दलित (dalit) (Nepali), ଦଳିତ (dôḷitô) (Odia), دالیت (dâlit) (Persian), dalit [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), ਦਲਿਤ (dalit) (Punjabi), دلت (dlt) (Punjabi), неприкаса́емый (neprikasájemyj) [masculine] (Russian), дали́т (dalít) [masculine] (Russian), па́рия (párija) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), Dalit (Spanish), தலித் (talit) (Tamil), தளிதன் (taḷitaṉ) (Tamil), దళితుడు (daḷituḍu) [masculine] (Telugu), దళితురాలు (daḷiturālu) [feminine] (Telugu), دلت (Urdu)

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.