shudra
/ʃuːdɹə/noun
shudra is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Shudra” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-H-U-D-R-A, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of shudra is shudras.
What does shudra mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Shudra.
noun
- 1
A member of the Hindu varna (caste) of workers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce shudra?
- /ʃuːdɹə/
- /ʃʊdɹə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of shudra
- sudra
- shudras plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is shudra?
Shudra appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Shudra in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a Hindu of the fourth varna:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | xudra |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does shudra come from?
Borrowed from Sanskrit शूद्र (śūdra).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).