noun

• A breed of beef cattle from India with a hump on the shoulder.
• (dated) A Brahmin
• (Hinduism) The unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe. The nature of Brahman is described as transpersonal, personal and impersonal by different philosophical schools.
• Alternative form of brahmin (member of the Hindu priestly class). [A member of the Hindu priestly caste, one of the four varnas or social groups based on occupation in ancient Hindu society.]