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Pariah

2 stages from Tamil to English.

Today it means a person who is rejected or despised by society
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Stage 1 of 2
paraiyar
Tamil · medieval
"a drummer caste"
a caste of drummers, later socially marginalized
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Stage 2 of 2
pariah
English · 1600s-1700s
"a social outcast"
adopted through British colonial contact in South India, broadened to mean an outcast
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