Definitions for varnaˈvɑr nə, ˈvʌr-

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

var•naˈvɑr nə, ˈvʌr-(n.)(pl.)-nas.

  1. any of the Hindu social classes; caste.

    Category: Eastern Religions

Origin of varna:

1835–45; < Skt varna lit., cover, color, hence sort, class

Var•naˈvɑr nə(n.)

  1. a seaport in NE Bulgaria, on the Black Sea. 305,891.

    Category: Geography (places)

    Ref: Formerly, Stalin.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Varna(noun)

    a port city in northeastern Bulgaria on the Black Sea

  2. varna(noun)

    (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)

Wiktionary

  1. varna(Noun)

    any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes

  2. Varna(ProperNoun)

    A city in northeastern Bulgaria.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Varna

    a port of Bulgaria, on a bay in the Black Sea; a place of considerable trade, specially in exporting corn; here the French and English allied forces encamped for four months in 1854 prior to their invasion of the Crimea.


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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

crow(noun)

the name given to a number of large birds, generally black.

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