Dougla
nounEtymology Borrowed from Caribbean Hindustani dugalaa (“many, much, a mix”), from Hindi दोग़ला (doġlā, “mixed blood, crossbreed, mixed breed, mixed race, illegitimate, hybrid, half-caste”), corrupted from Classical Persian داغول (dāġūl, “illegitimate child, trickster, cheat”).
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Caribbean A Caribbean person of mixed African and Indian descent.
- But the dilemmas facing douglas and their parents are often different: being born dougla is not the same as choosing intermarriage and bearing a dougla. Parents are not often douglas themselves.2002, Yasurō Hase, Hiroyuki Miyake, Fumiko Oshikawa, South Asian migration in comparative perspective, movement, settlement and diaspora:
- Derived terms
- douglarisation, douglarization