pariah
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源自泰米爾語 பறையர் (paṟaiyar)，源自பறையன் (paṟaiyaṉ, “鼓手”)，源自பறை (paṟai, “鼓”)或馬拉雅拉姆語 പറയർ (paṟayar)，源自പറയൻ (paṟayan, “鼓手”)，源自പറ (paṟa, “鼓”)。泰米尔语中的parai或马来语中的para指的是一种王要宣布消息时敲的大型鼓。专职敲parai的人称为paraiyar，在基于种姓的社会阶层中属较低等级，因此派生出了这个词。
或者，派生自梵語 पर (para, “遥远的；局外人”)。
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pariah (複數 pariahs)
- outcast之同義詞：（尤指印度种姓社会中）被排挤的人，边缘人
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- 1985, Robert Holmes, “The Two Doctors”, 出自 Doctor Who, 季数 22, 集数 4:
- I’m a pariah, outlawed from Time Lord society.
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- 2014, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, “Prologue”, 出自 Executive Presence, →ISBN:
- […] I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah, since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know.
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- (比喻) 被排挤的人，边缘人
- 2013, Marvin Harris, “The Abominable Pig”, 出自 Food and Culture: A Reader, 3rd版, New York City, →ISBN，頁號s 64–65:
- As ecological conditions became unfavorable for pig raising, there was no alternative function which could redeem its existence. The creature became not only useless, but worse than useless—harmful, a curse to touch or merely to see—a pariah animal.
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- 2022年3月2日，Thomas L. Friedman，“I See Three Scenarios for How This War Ends”，出自 The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
- This scenario could lead to war crimes the scale of which has not been seen in Europe since the Nazis — crimes that would make Vladimir Putin, his cronies and Russia as a country all global pariahs.
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- (動物學) pariah dog的缩略形式：印度种的野狗