Jat
/dʒɑːt
/noun
A member of a people widely scattered throughout the north-west of India and Pakistan.‘Muslims are angry since the Jats voted against many Muslim candidates in the Assembly polls,’ points out a BJP leader....
- Some pre-election polls suggested that BJP support had grown among Kshatriyas, Kayasthas, Jats and Yadavs and had increased its support among all categories except Dalits, scheduled tribes and Muslims.
- For example, the Jats, who were themselves drawn from classes branded as low by the Brahminical system, started exhibiting caste prejudices vis-a-vis the lower castes drawn from the Hindu fold.
Origin
Hindi Jāṭ.
Rhymes
- Bermuda rig
- Bermudas
- Bermuda shorts
- Bermuda Triangle
- Bermudian
- Bern
- Bernadette, St
- Bernadotte, Folke
- Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules
- Bernard, Claude
- Bernard of Clairvaux, St
- Bernard, St
- Berne
- Berne Convention
- Berners-Lee, Sir Tim
- Bernese
- Bernese mountain dog
- Bernhardt, Sarah
- Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
- Bernoulli
- Bernoulli's principle
- Bernstein, Carl
- Bernstein, Leonard
- be rolling in it (or in money)
- Berra, Yogi