baraat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani بَرات (barāt) / बरात (barāt), ultimately from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).

Noun

baraat (plural baraats)

1. (South Asia) A wedding procession carried out by the bridegroom in North India, West India, and Pakistan.
   • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 64:

     ‘There must be no lavish display of wealth, no big baraats or bands, exploding of fireworks and that kind of vulgarity.’

An Indian baraat in the United Kingdom.

Translations

a wedding procession

• Bengali: বরযাত্রী (bn) (borjatri)
• Gujarati: જાન f (jān), વરાત f (varāt)
• Hindi: बरात (hi) f (barāt)
• Marathi: वरात f (varāt)
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਜੰਜ f (jañj), ਬਰਾਤ f (barāt), ਵਰਾਤ f (varāt)

  Shahmukhi: جَنْج f (jañj), بَرات f (barāt), وَرات f (varāt)

• Sanskrit: वरयात्रा (sa) (varayātrā)
• Saraiki: جَن٘ڄ (skr) f (jaṉǰ⁩)
• Sindhi: ڄَڃَ f (ǰaña)
• Telugu: బారత్ (bārat)
• Urdu: بَرات f (barāt), بارات f (bārāt)

Further reading

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Anagrams

• taarab