| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Harijan |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Har·i·jan |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  h r  -j n |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. Harijan or Har·i·jans
An Untouchable. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Sanskrit harijana , person of Hari, child of God (coined as a euphemism for Untouchable by Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1931) : Hari, Hari, a name for Vishnu; see Hare Krishna + jana, person, child; see gen- in Appendix I.
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