برن

बणर् barn, बरन baran [S. वणर् ], s.m. Colour, hue, tint; sort, kind; class, tribe, order, caste, sect (the Hindūs are divided into four principal barns, viz. 1˚Brāhman; 2˚Kshatriya; 3˚Vaiśya; 4˚ Śudra); fame, celebrity; praise; description; beauty; quality, property; (in Gram.) letter of the alphabet; syllable; (in Math.), coefficient:—barn-dharam, s.m. The particular duties that are religiously incumbent on the several casts of Hindūs:—barn-saṅkar, s.m. Mixture or confusions of castes or tribes by intermarriage; a person or tribe of mixed origin, or from parents of different castes; a man who does not scruple to eat with one of a different caste:—barn-mālā, s.f. Alphabet; the a, b, c book:—barn-hīn, adj. & s.m. Out of caste, casteless;—one who is put out of caste; outcast.