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Varna

Varna

See also: varna, várná, várna, vārna, vārnā, and värna

English

Noun

Varna (plural Varnas)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of varna

Proper noun

Varna

  1. A city in northeastern Bulgaria.

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Varna f

  1. Varna (a city in Bulgaria)

Slovak

Proper noun

Varna f (genitive Varny) declension pattern žena

  1. Varna

Declension

varna

varna

See also: Varna, várna, várná, vārna, vārnā, and värna

English

Noun

varna (plural varnas)

  1. (Hinduism) any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes

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References

  • Credo, Quia Occidentale
  • Welzer, Albrecht. 1994. Credo, Quia Occidentale: A Note on Sanskrit varna and its Misinterpretation in Literature on Mamamsa and Vyakarana. In: Studies in Mamamsa: Dr Mandan Mishra Felicitation Volume edited by R.C. Dwivedi. Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass.

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Icelandic

Noun

varna

  1. indefinite genitive plural of vörn

Lithuanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvarnɐ/

Noun

várna f (plural várnos) stress pattern 1 [2]

  1. (Corvus cornix) crow
    várna krañkia/rė̃kia[2] - a crow caws/cries

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(nouns):

  • (diminutive) varnelė
  • juodvarnis m

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 15504 6, page 528
  2. 1 2 “varna” in Juozas Balčikonis [et al.] (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  • “varna” in Victoria Martsinkyavitshute (2012), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian, Seventh printing. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 978-0-7818-0151-5

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse varna, from Proto-Germanic *warnōną.

Verb

varna

  1. to be careful
  2. to preserve, to protect
  3. to warn

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish varna, from Old Norse varna, from Proto-Germanic *warnōną.

Pronunciation

Verb

varna (present varnar, preterite varnade, supine varnat, imperative varna)

  1. to warn; to issue a warning

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