shudra

Other forms of shudra

plural

shudras·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shudra

What does shudra mean?

shudra means "a member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shudra?

shudra has 2 syllables: shu-dra. The stress falls on "shu".

What is another word for shudra?

Close synonyms include Sudra, sudra. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shudra a common word?

shudra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.