Crossword clues for pariah
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pariah \Pa"ri*ah\, n. [From Tamil paraiyan, pl. paraiyar, one of the low caste, fr. parai a large drum, because they beat the drums at certain festivals.]
One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindus as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.
--Balfour (Cyc. of India).-
An outcast; one despised by society.
Pariah dog (Zo["o]l.), a mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities.
Pariah kite (Zo["o]l.), a species of kite ( Milvus govinda) which acts as a scavenger in India.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Portuguese paria or directly from Tamil paraiyar, plural of paraiyan "drummer" (at festivals, the hereditary duty of members of the largest of the lower castes of southern India), from parai "large festival drum." "Especially numerous at Madras, where its members supplied most of the domestics in European service" [OED]. Applied by Hindus and Europeans to any members of low Hindu castes and even to outcastes. Extended meaning "social outcast" is first attested 1819.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An outcast. 2 A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised. 3 Someone in exile. 4 A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India. 5 A person who is rejected (from society or home).
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pariah is a scientist in comics published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 (April 1985), and was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez.
Pariah is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Brainbox Games, HIP Games and Digital Extremes. It was released on May 3, 2005 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. It uses a modified version of the Unreal engine and the Havok physics engine. Pariah received mixed reviews from critics.
Pariah may refer to:
- A member of the Paraiyar caste in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
- Pariah state, a country whose behavior does not conform to norms
- Outcast (person)
Pariah is a 1998 American dramatic film written and directed by Randolph Kret and starring Damon Jones, Dave Oren Ward, and Angela Jones.
Pariah is a 2011 American art drama film written and directed by Dee Rees. It tells the story of Alike ( Adepero Oduye), a 17-year-old African-American teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the Excellence in Cinematography Award.
Pariah is a one-act play written by August Strindberg.
Pariah is a crime novel written by Brian Vallée published in 1991. Pariah, Vallée's first novel was released in the United States and Canada however the novel is now out of print.
Usage examples of "pariah".
By then, Woyty had become an antinomian pariah, producing the barest minimum research to survive.
They slept wherever they were admitted, usually among the poor and the pariahs in the skid rows and tenderloins and cribs of Europe, America and Asia.
I want the Nervi organization broken up, destroyed, made a pariah in the business world.
The name he gave to his persona was borrowed from the Cagots, an ancient pariah race of untouchables who had practiced a variant of Christianity which brought down upon them the rancor and hatred of their Basque neighbors.
I was cast out, expelled from The Guild of Candlemakers, a social pariah.
Pariah dogs foraged in piles of garbage, hardbitten whores spat from the windows, and according to the corporal, it was not unusual to stumble across a corpse, probably a victim of the gangs of abandoned children who lived in the fringes of the jungle.
Cassie thought she could stand being blackballed, being a pariah at school again.
From the friendly way she spoke, the colorist no doubt had failed to recognize Acorna as the pariah of the planet.
Scarfsellers, whores, and match and noodle vendors rubbed elbows with bourgeois ladies out for walks with their companions, clerks hurrying to their countinghouses, crossingsweepers busily clearing horse dung out of the way for a copper, chimney sweeps, pickpockets, constables in red and blue uniforms, and butchers' boys driving their quickfooted ponies and trailed by gangs of yapping pariah dogs.
Scarf‑sellers, whores, and match and noodle vendors rubbed elbows with bourgeois ladies out for walks with their companions, clerks hurrying to their countinghouses, crossing‑sweepers busily clearing horse dung out of the way for a copper, chimney sweeps, pickpockets, constables in red and blue uniforms, and butchers' boys driving their quickfooted ponies and trailed by gangs of yapping pariah dogs.
The mother of such a child was usually a pariah, cast out for fear she would draw the evil animal spirit again and cause other women to give birth to such abominations.
In the central square, dominated by a plaster fountain decorated with faces from which all feature had eroded, a pariah dog with a pelt the color of blanched almonds was poking about for bugs in a patch of sere grass.
Hendrick glimpsed their dark shapes as the Ford bumped and pitched over the rough track between the shanties and shacks and the headlights swung aimlessly back and forth illuminating little cameo scenes: a group of black children stoning a pariah dog.
Varshakara spat a wad of crimson betel juice at a pariah dog, staining the creature’.
I felt a pang of shame when I saw how neglected it was, the graves untended, the weedy ground showing the tracks of goat and donkey, jackal and pariah dog.