Caucasian in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “caucasian” in Hindi is सफ़ेद नस्ल का, pronounced kakeshasi — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
From Caucasus (“mountain range in Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea”) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘from, related to, or like’, or forming nouns with the sense ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’). The anthropological sense (no longer regarded as scientific) was popularized by the German anthropologist and physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), based on the belief that the first humans originated from there.
Noun sense 2 (“cocktail”) was popularized by the film The Big Lebowski (1998): see the quotation.
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Noun sense 2 (“cocktail”) was popularized by the film The Big Lebowski (1998): see the quotation.
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