वर्ण

Borrowed from Sanskrit वर्ण (várṇa), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *wárṇas. Doublet of बाण (bāṇ).

• IPA^(key): /ʋəɾn/

वर्ण • (varṇ) m

1. color
2. race (ethnic group, often categorized by skin colour)
3. caste, class
4. letter

   वर्णमाला ― varṇamālā ― alphabet

5. (phonetics) a phone

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “वर्ण”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wárṇas, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to conceal”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐ́ɽ.ɳɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɐɽ.ɳɐ/

वर्ण • (várṇa) m

1. covering
2. color
3. kind
4. race
5. caste

• वर्णमाला (varṇamālā)

• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀯𑀡𑁆𑀡 (vaṇṇa)
  • Old Marathi: 𑘪𑘰𑘜 (vāṇa), 𑘪𑘰𑘜𑘹𑘽 (vāṇeṁ), 𑘪𑘰𑘡 (vāna)
    • Marathi: वाण (vāṇ)
• Pali: vaṇṇa
  • → Kannada: ಬಣ್ಣ (baṇṇa, “color”)
  • → Khmer: វណ្ណ (vannaʾ)
  • → Burmese: ဝဏ္ဏ (wanna.)
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀯𑀡𑁆𑀡 (vaṇṇa)
  • Gujarati: વાન (vān)
  • Hindi: बान (bān)
• → Assamese: বৰ্ণ (borno)
• → Old Assamese: বৰণ (boroṇo)
  • Assamese: বৰণ (boron)
• → Bengali: বরন (bôrôn), বর্ণ (bôrṇ)
  • → Santali: ᱵᱳᱨᱳᱱ (boron)
• → English: varna
• → Gujarati: વર્ણ (varṇ)}
• → Hindi: वर्ण (varṇ)
• → Javanese: ꦮꦼꦂꦤ (werna)
• → Kannada: ವರ್ಣ (varṇa)
• → Khmer: ពណ៌ (pɔə)
• → Malay: warna, rona (through metathesis)
  • Indonesian: warna
• → Marathi: वर्ण (varṇ)
• → Old Marathi: 𑘪𑘨𑘿𑘜 (varṇa)
• ⇒ Telugu: వర్ణము (varṇamu)
• → Thai: วรรณ (wan)

• “व॑र्ण” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, OCLC 186102264, page 475, column 2.
• Arthur A. Macdonell, A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, 1893, page 271
• Monier Williams (1899), “Várṇa”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 924, column 2.
• Horace Hayman Wilson, A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed., Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 737