See also: رأت and ذات

Kalkoti edit

Noun edit

رات (rāt)

  1. blood
  2. night

Kundal Shahi edit

Noun edit

رات (rāt)

  1. blood

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Ottoman Turkish edit

Noun edit

رات (rat)

  1. (falconry) lure

Derived terms edit

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Sindhi edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀭𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺 (ratti), from Sanskrit रात्रि (rātri).

Noun edit

رات (rāt)

  1. night

Urdu edit

 
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Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle Hindi رات (rāt) / رت (rat) / رتی (/⁠ratī⁠/), from Old Hindi رت (rat) / رتی (/⁠ratī⁠/), inherited from Prakrit 𑀭𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺 (ratti), from Sanskrit रात्रि (rā́trī).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

رات (rātf (Hindi spelling रात)

  1. night, nighttime
    رات کو چاند نکلتا ہے۔
    rāt ko cānd nikaltā hai.
    The moon comes out at night.
  2. eve
    جمعراتjumi'rātThursday (literally, “friday eve”)
    چاند راتcānd rātnight of the moon (literally, “moon eve”)
  3. (figuratively) darkness, dark

Declension edit

Declension of رات
singular plural
direct رات (rāt) راتیں (rātẽ)
oblique رات (rāt) راتوں (rātõ)
vocative رات (rāt) راتو (rāto)

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Further reading edit

  • رات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • رات”, 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), “رات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884), “رات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • S. W. Fallon (1879), “رات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834), “رات”, 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), “rā́trī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 619