caste

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• Received-Pronunciation: käst
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kɑːst/
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• Northern-England, Scotland: /kast/
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• General-American: /kæst/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• homophone: cast
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• homophone: karst (non-rhotic, trap–bath split)
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• rhymes with -ɑːst
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), which the OED derives from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus (“chaste"; "chastity”), Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts, “group, collection of animals”), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h2ǵ-es-.

121 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: طَبَقَة (ṭabaqa) — hereditary social class
• Arabic: طَبَقِيَّة (ṭabaqiyya) — hereditary social class
• Armenian: կաստա (kasta) — hereditary social class
• Assamese: বৰ্ণ (borno) — hereditary social class
• Azerbaijani: kasta — hereditary social class
• Balinese: kasta — hereditary social class
• Balinese: linggih — hereditary social class
• Belarusian: ка́ста (kásta) — hereditary social class
• Bengali: জাত (jat) — hereditary social class
• Bengali: জাতি (jati) — hereditary social class
• Bengali: বর্ণ (borno) — hereditary social class
• Bulgarian: каста (kasta) — hereditary social class
• Burmese: ဇာတ် (jat) — hereditary social class
• Catalan: casta — hereditary social class
• Catalan: nissaga — hereditary social class
• Chinese Mandarin: 種姓 /种姓 (zhǒngxìng) — hereditary social class
• Chinese Mandarin: 種姓制度 /种姓制度 (zhǒngxìng zhìdù) — hereditary social class
• Czech: kasta — hereditary social class
• Danish: kaste — hereditary social class
• Dutch: kaste — hereditary social class
• Esperanto: kasto — hereditary social class
• Estonian: kast — hereditary social class
• Faroese: kasta — hereditary social class
• Finnish: kasti — hereditary social class
• French: caste — hereditary social class
• Galician: casta — hereditary social class
• Georgian: კასტა (ḳasṭa) — hereditary social class
• German: Kaste — hereditary social class
• Greek: κάστα (kásta) — hereditary social class
• Gujarati: જાત (jāt) — hereditary social class
• Gujarati: જાતિ (jāti) — hereditary social class
• Gujarati: નાત (nāt) — hereditary social class
• Gujarati: ન્યાત (nyāt) — hereditary social class
• Gujarati: વર્ણ (varṇ) — hereditary social class
• Gujarati: જ્ઞાતિ (jñāti) — hereditary social class
• Gujarati: કોળી (koḷī) — hereditary social class
• Hebrew: קאסטה (kasta) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: वर्ण (varṇ) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: जाति (jāti) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: जात (jāt) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: वर्णाश्रम (varṇāśram) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: खेत (khet) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: कुल (kul) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: न्याति (nyāti) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: ज़ात (zāt) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: नात (nāt) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: ज्ञाति (jñāti) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: गोत्र (gotra) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: बिरादरी (birādrī) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: जिनस (jinas) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: जिंस (jins) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: वंश (vañś) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: बंस (bans) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: नस्ल (nasla) — hereditary social class
• Hindi: नसल (nasal) — hereditary social class
• Hungarian: kaszt — hereditary social class
• Icelandic: erfðastétt — hereditary social class
• Indonesian: kasta — hereditary social class
• Italian: casta — hereditary social class
• Japanese: カースト (kāsuto) — hereditary social class
• Japanese: ジャーティ (jāti) — hereditary social class
• Kannada: ಜಾತಿ (jāti) — hereditary social class
• Kannada: ವರ್ಣ (varṇa) — hereditary social class
• Kazakh: каста (kasta) — hereditary social class
• Khmer: វណ្ណ (vannaʼ) — hereditary social class
• Korean: 카스트 (kaseuteu) — hereditary social class
• Korean: 카스트제도 (kaseuteujedo) — hereditary social class
• Lao: ວັນນະ (wan na) — hereditary social class
• Latvian: kasta — hereditary social class
• Lithuanian: kasta — hereditary social class
• Macedonian: каста (kasta) — hereditary social class
• Malay: kasta — hereditary social class
• Malay: warna — hereditary social class
• Malayalam: ജാതി (jāti) — hereditary social class
• Malayalam: വർണ്ണം (vaṟṇṇaṁ) — hereditary social class
• Malayalam: കുലം (kulaṁ) — hereditary social class
• Malayalam: കൂട്ടം (kūṭṭaṁ) — hereditary social class
• Malayalam: ഗോത്രം (gōtraṁ) — hereditary social class
• Māori: tātai — hereditary social class
• Marathi: जात-जमात (jāt-jamāt) — hereditary social class
• Mongolian: каст (kast) — hereditary social class
• Nepali: काय (kāya) — hereditary social class
• Norwegian: kaste — hereditary social class
• Odia: ଜାତି (jāti) — hereditary social class
• Pali: vaṇṇa — hereditary social class
• Pali: jāti — hereditary social class
• Persian: کاست (kâst) — hereditary social class
• Persian: طبقه (tabaqe) — hereditary social class
• Persian: ذات (zât) — hereditary social class
• Persian: نسل (nasl) — hereditary social class
• Polish: kasta — hereditary social class
• Portuguese: casta — hereditary social class
• Punjabi: ਜਾਤਿ (jāti) — hereditary social class
• Romanian: castă — hereditary social class
• Russian: ка́ста (kásta) — hereditary social class
• Russian: ва́рна (várna) — hereditary social class
• Sanskrit: वर्ण (várṇa) — hereditary social class
• Sanskrit: जाति (jāti) — hereditary social class
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̏ста — hereditary social class
• Serbo-Croatian: kȁsta — hereditary social class
• Sinhalese: කුල (kula) — hereditary social class
• Slovak: kasta — hereditary social class
• Slovene: kasta — hereditary social class
• Spanish: casta — hereditary social class
• Swedish: kast — hereditary social class
• Tajik: каста (kasta) — hereditary social class
• Tamil: சாதி (cāti) — hereditary social class
• Telugu: కులము వర్ణము (kulamu) — hereditary social class
• Thai: วรรณะ (wan-ná) — hereditary social class
• Thai: วรรณ (wan) — hereditary social class
• Turkish: kast — hereditary social class
• Ukrainian: ка́ста (kásta) — hereditary social class
• Urdu: جات (jāt) — hereditary social class
• Urdu: ذات (zāt) — hereditary social class
• Urdu: ورناشرم (varṇāśram) — hereditary social class
• Urdu: کھیت (khet) — hereditary social class
• Urdu: کل (kul) — hereditary social class
• Urdu: نیات (nyāti) — hereditary social class
• Uzbek: kasta — hereditary social class
• Vietnamese: đẳng cấp — hereditary social class
• Yiddish: קאַסטע (kaste) — hereditary social class