name
Meaning 1
A city in northeastern Bulgaria.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
varna
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/ˈvɜːnə/
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/ˈvɑːnə/
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)nə
noun
Meaning 2
any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hinduism
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative letter-case form of varna.
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Usage: alt-of
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noun
Meaning 4
(Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: group, grouping
Narrower terms: brahman, brahmin, rajanya, vaisya, sudra, shudra
noun
Meaning 5
a port city in northeastern Bulgaria on the Black Sea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: city, metropolis, urban center, port
History
Etymology
From Sanskrit वर्ण (várṇa, “colour, tint, dye, pigment, appearance, aspect”), from verbal root वृणोति (vṛṇoti, “to choose, select”).
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: Վառնա (Vaṙna) — city in Bulgaria
- Bulgarian: Ва́рна (Várna) — city in Bulgaria
- Chinese Mandarin: 瓦爾納 /瓦尔纳 (Wǎ'ěrnà) — city in Bulgaria
- Esperanto: Varna — city in Bulgaria
- Galician: Varna — city in Bulgaria
- German: Warna — city in Bulgaria
- Greek: Βάρνα (Várna) — city in Bulgaria
- Greek: Οδυσσός (Odyssós) — city in Bulgaria
- Hindi: वार्ना (vārnā) — city in Bulgaria
- Hungarian: Várna — city in Bulgaria
- Japanese: バルナ (Baruna) — city in Bulgaria
- Korean: 바르나 (Bareuna) — city in Bulgaria
- Latin: Odessus — city in Bulgaria
- Macedonian: Ва́рна (Várna) — city in Bulgaria
- Marathi: वारना (vārnā) — city in Bulgaria
- Polish: Warna — city in Bulgaria
- Portuguese: Varna — city in Bulgaria
- Romanian: Varna — city in Bulgaria
- Russian: Ва́рна (Várna) — city in Bulgaria
- Slovak: Varna — city in Bulgaria
- French: varna — caste
- Malay: warna — caste
- Marathi: वर्ण (varṇa) — caste
- Portuguese: varna — caste
- Russian: варна (varna) — caste
- Slovak: varna — caste
- Tamil: வர்ணம் (varṇam) — caste
- Tamil: ஜாதி (jāti) — caste
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