Surname · Gujarati
દાસ
“enemy, foreigner, foreign people, foreign land”
દાસ (dās) is a surname from Sauraseni Prakrit, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Gujarati.
GujaratiWritten in Gujarati script. In English: dās.
Meaning & origin
What it means
દાસ goes back to Proto-Indo-Iranian *dásyuš-, meaning “enemy, foreigner, foreign people, foreign land.”
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Where it comes from
દાસ comes from Sauraseni Prakrit, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀸𑀲, from Sanskrit दास (dā́sa), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dásyuš- (“enemy, foreigner, foreign people, foreign land”), from Proto-Indo-European *des- (“enemy, foreigner”).
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દાસ’s family of names
In Gujarati usage, દાસ as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as dās. In Gujarati usage, દાસ as a surname has a related form in દાશ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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