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khattiyehi

khattiya

masc instr pl of khattiya (adj); nt instr pl of khattiya (adj); masc abl pl of khattiya (adj); nt abl pl of khattiya (adj); …

1. of the warrior caste; of high-caste; noble
2. man of the warrior caste; high-caste man; nobleman
3. prince; king's son

Built from

• khattiya — root · warrior, nobleman
  From Sanskrit kṣatriya, the ruling and warrior class. The concrete sense is 'one who bears rule'; the social status follows from this warrior function in the vedic system. Cognate with Sanskrit kṣatra 'rule' and kṣam 'to bear/rule'.
• ehi — ending · instrumental/ablative plural
  Marks either instrumental case (by, with, through means of) or ablative case (from, by, away from), both plural. In this form, the ending serves to show that khattiya functions as a noun modified by the case relation, and the plural scope includes multiple warriors or noblemen.

Etymology. From Sanskrit kṣatriya (क्षत्रिय), from kṣatra 'rule, dominion' (related to √kṣam 'to bear, rule'). The word denotes the second varna of the traditional four-fold caste system, those who rule and make war. English 'shah' (Persian derivation) and 'satrap' are distantly cognate through Indo-European *kseu̯- 'to cut, rule'.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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