Definitions for rajputˈrɑdʒ put

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

Raj•putˈrɑdʒ put(n.)

  1. a member of a landowning caste or cluster of castes of NW India, esp. of Rajasthan and adjacent parts of the Gangetic plain and Himalayan foothills.

    Category: Peoples

Origin of Rajput:

1590–1600; < Hindi, = Skt rāj king (see raj ) +putra son

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Rajput, Rajpoot(noun)

    a member of the dominant Hindu military caste in northern India

Wiktionary

  1. Rajput(Noun)

    A member of the Kshatriya Hindu caste

  2. Rajput(Noun)

    An inhabitant of Rajasthan

  3. Rajput(Noun)

    Any of an ethnic group in Pakistan and Northern India who converted to Sikhism or Islam as a result of the Sikh Wars

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rajput(noun)

    a Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India


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