Nair
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
a member of any one of these castes.
of or relating to this group of castes or their members.
Origin of Nair
1- Also Nayer .
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How to use Nair in a sentence
It may temporarily supersede these as in Australia; or it may take their place, as among the Nairs.
Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia | Northcote W. ThomasThe wages of the nairs are four carlines each, monthly, in time of peace, and six during war.
He has a great number of gentlemen, some of whom are called Amochi and others Nairs.
When the nairs understood who we were, they asked the Persians why they carried me along with them, without licence from the king?
They do not associate with any peasant, and neither eat nor drink except in the houses of other nairs.
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