求种姓制中贱民的英文

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种姓制度中,比首陀罗更低等的阶级——贱民的英文是untouchable,或是"the fifth" (panchama) category。

这个阶级甚至没有专属的名字,只是被简单地蔑称为“第五阶级”。括号里应该是“第五”的印度文音译拼法。

另外,untouchable本身就有贱民的意思。

贱民;不可接触者:印度的一个种姓,由许多阶层构成,他们被排除在印度的四个种姓之外,并被这几个种姓的人认为是在宗教上不洁的和对人有污损性的。The class, comprising numerous subclasses, that is excluded from and considered ritually unclean and defiling by the four Hindu classes.

资料来源:金山词霸

对社会群体的宗教划分,古代印度人被分为四个种姓:

婆罗门:代表神庙的宗教官员(不包括权力的最高统治——帝王,宗教的权力大于皇权),

刹帝利:代表帝王将相,

吠舍:代表平民,

首陀罗:代表奴隶。

此外,还有比首陀罗更低,不入流的「贱民」,成份是打仗的战俘,以及不遵守种姓制度而结合的人。

来自:百度百科-种姓制度

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The four major caste groups (varnas) were characterized according to the social functions they performed.

Brahmins were the educators,

kshatriyas the producers and warriors,

vaishyas the merchants,

and shudras the labourers.

贱民的英文介绍Those with the most defiling jobs (such as those who dispose of body emissions and dead animals) are ranked beneath the Shudras. Considered untouchable, they were simply dubbed as "the fifth" (panchama) category.

来自:/caste%20system%20

翻译并不完全对应。