दवात

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دوات (dawāt), from Arabic دَوَاة (dawāh). Compare Gujarati દવાત (davāt), Marathi दौत (daut), Punjabi ਦਵਾਤ (davāt) / دوات (doāt), Assamese দোৱাত (düat).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪ə.ʋɑːt̪/, [d̪ɐ.ʋäːt̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪

Noun

दवात • (davāt) f (Urdu spelling دَوات)

1. inkwell, inkpot

   Synonym: मसिपात्र (masipātra)

Declension

Declension of दवात (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	दवात davāt	दवातें davātẽ
oblique	दवात davāt	दवातों davātõ
vocative	दवात davāt	दवातो davāto

Further reading

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “दवात”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 2231
• Platts, John T. (1884) “dawāt”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 530
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दवात”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 484
• “दवात”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.