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Varna

noun

A port city in northeastern Bulgaria on the Black Sea.

(Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis).

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... into castes—kabane or sei. (I use the term "castes," following Dr. Florenz, a leading authority on ancient Japanese civilization, who gives the meaning of sei as equivalent to that of the Sanscrit varna, signifying "caste" or "colour.") Every family in the three great divisions of Japanese society belonged to some caste; and each caste represented at first some occupation or calling. Caste would not seem to have developed any very rigid structure in Japan; and there were early tendencies to ...

— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn

... to follow Captain Smith to Nalbrits. Perhaps Smith himself would have been puzzled to make a map of his own career after he left Varna and passed the Black Sea and came through the straits of Niger into the Sea Disbacca, by some called the Lake Moetis, and then sailed some days up the River Bruapo to Cambria, and two days more to Nalbrits, ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

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