ETYM From Tamil paraiyan, pl. paraiyar, one of the low caste, from parai a large drum, because they beat the drums at certain festivals.
1. An outcast; one despised by society.
2. One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindus as of very low grade.
Low caste Indian; outcast; mongrel stray dog of streets.
Indijska kasta, pleme koje Indusi preziru kao nečisto, pleme prastanovnika Indije koje su sanskrtska plemena pobedila i oterala u plemene, koji se rađaju kao robovi i ponajviše služe kod tamošnjih Evropljana; fig. siromašan i bedan čovek iz najnižeg reda ljuidi, prezreni rob. (ind.)