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ज़ात — meaning in English

zāt

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English meaning

  • breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  • caste noun One of the hereditary social classes found historically in South Asian societies and elsewhere.
  • essence noun The most basic, defining quality of something — what makes it what it truly is.
  • ethnicity noun The fact of belonging to a group defined by shared ancestry, culture, or nationality; or that group itself.
  • individuality noun The qualities that make a person or thing distinct from others in the same group.
  • nature noun The physical world and everything in it — plants, animals, landscapes, and natural forces — as distinct from human-made things.
  • race noun A contest to see who is fastest at reaching a goal.
  • self noun A person's own individual character, personality, or identity.

Senses

ज़ात is used for these senses in English:

  • essence inherent nature
  • self individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness
  • race a large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage
  • caste hereditary social class
  • breed race or lineage
  • individuality characteristic of being individual
  • ethnicity characteristics of an ethnic group
  • nature essential characteristics

breed — full definition

  1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
  3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
  4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

caste — full definition

  1. noun One of the hereditary social classes found historically in South Asian societies and elsewhere.
  2. noun Any rigid, hereditary social division that limits people to a fixed class.

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