برات
Baluchi edit
Noun edit
برات • (barát)
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Church Slavonic Бѣлградъ (Bělgradŭ), from бѣлъ (bělŭ, “white”) + градъ (gradŭ, “fortress, city”), from Proto-Slavic *bělъ and *gordъ. Doublet of بلغراد.
Proper noun edit
برات • (Berat)
Descendants edit
- Albanian: Berat
- English: Berat
- Turkish: Berat
References edit
Punjabi edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Punjabi) IPA(key): /bə.ɾäːt̪ᵊ/
- Hyphenation: بَ‧رات
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Urdu بَرات (barāt), from Paisaci Prakrit, from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).
Noun edit
بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian برات (barāt).
Noun edit
بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)
Declension edit
Declension of برات | ||
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dir. sg. | بَرات (barāt) | |
dir. pl. | بَراتاں (barātāṉ) | |
singular | plural | |
direct | بَرات (barāt) | بَراتاں (barātāṉ) |
oblique | بَرات (barāt) | بَراتاں (barātāṉ) |
vocative | بَراتے (barāte) | بَراتو (barāto) |
ablative | بَراتوں (barātoṉ) | — |
locative | بَراتے (barāte) | بَراتِیں (barātīṉ) |
instrumental | بَراتے (barāte) | بَراتیں (barāteṉ) |
Further reading edit
Urdu edit
Alternative forms edit
- بارات (bārāt)
Etymology edit
First attested in c. 1693 as Middle Hindi بَرات (barāt), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā), a compound of वर (vará, “suitor, bridegroom, husband”) + यात्रा (yā́trā, “journey”), literally “the groom's journey [to the bride]”.
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bə.ɾɑːt̪/
- Rhymes: -ɑːt̪
Noun edit
بَرات • (barāt) f (Hindi spelling बरात)
- baraat (marriage procession from the groom's home to the bride's)
- (figurative) party, crowd
Declension edit
Declension of برات | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | برات (barāt) | براتیں (barātẽ) |
oblique | برات (barāt) | براتوں (barātõ) |
vocative | برات (barāt) | براتو (barāto) |
Further reading edit
- “برات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “برات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “برات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “برات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879), “برات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834), “برات”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press