Shudra

• Sudra, Súdra
• Shoodur, Shuddery, Soora, Soodra, Sooder, Soudra (archaic)

Borrowed from Sanskrit शूद्र (śūdra).

Shudra (plural Shudras)

1. A member of the Hindu varna (caste) of workers.
   • 1951 October, Helen Mayer Hacker, “Women as Minority Group”, in Howard W. Odum, Katherine Jocher, editors, Social Forces, volume 30, number 1, Williams & Wilkins, →DOI, page 60:

     A Sudra knows that his lot in life has been cast by divine fiat, and he does not expect the perquisites of a Brahmin.

• shudra

• Dahurs, Huards