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
- verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
- verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
- verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
- noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.
caste — full definition
- noun One of the hereditary social classes found historically in South Asian societies and elsewhere.
- noun Any rigid, hereditary social division that limits people to a fixed class.