Dalit

Borrowed from Marathi दलित (dalit, “oppressed”), from Sanskrit दलित (dalita, “broken, destroyed”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːlɪt/, /ˈdʌlɪt/

Dalit (plural Dalits)

1. A member of a South Asian group of people traditionally regarded as untouchables or outcastes.

   Jogendra Nath Mandal was the first leader to fight for a further identity of the Dalits, holding that they were neither Hindus nor Muslims.

• See untouchable

• Adivasi
• Harijan

• “Dalit”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Dalit”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Dalit” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

• Tilda, datil, dital, latid, tidal