Brahmin

Multiple Entries:
  Brahmin    Brahman  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Brahmin /ˈbrɑːmɪn/

▶noun

• 1 variant spelling of Brahman (sense 1).

• 2 US a socially or culturally superior person.

• 3 (also Brahminy bull or US Brahman) an ox of a humped breed originally domesticated in India.

– derivatives
Brahminical adjective.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Brahman /ˈbrɑːmən/

▶noun (pl. Brahmans)

• 1 (also Brahmin) a member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood.

• 2 (also Brahma) the ultimate reality underlying all phenomena in the Hindu scriptures.

• 3 US spelling of Brahmin (sense 3).

– derivatives
Brahmanic /-ˈmanɪk/ adjective,
Brahmanical adjective.

– origin sense 1 from Sanskrit brāhmaṇa; sense 2 from Sanskrit brahman.