As a Hindi name
चाण्डाल · ćānḍāl · s.m.
= ćanḍāl, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 419
चाय · feminine
tea (plant, beverage); cup of tea
a Hindi word of Persian origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Classical Persian چَای (čāy), ultimately from Chinese 茶 (chá).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the worst among (in comp.; gen. )
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Dictionary citations
cāṇḍāla m. = caṇḍ˚ (Ved. Pāṇ. v, 4, 36, Vārtt. 1), VS. xxx, 21; ŚBr. xiv; Kauś.; Mn. &c.
the worst among (in comp. Mn. ix, 87; MBh. xii f.; gen. Cāṇ.)
cāṇḍāla m. (-laḥ) A name of an impure or degraded tribe, a Caṇḍāla, a Pariah, an outcaste. f. (-lī) A woman of the same tribe. E. caḍi to be angry, Uṇādi affix ālañ, and according to some aṇ added; also caṇḍāla.
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