औरत
Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت ('awrat, “woman, wife, genitals, nudity”), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, “genitals; nudity”). First attested in c. 1420 as Old Hindi औरत (aurata).
Pronunciation
Noun
औरत • (aurat) f (Urdu spelling عَورَت)
Declension
Declension of औरत (fem cons-stem)
Synonyms
Antonyms
See also
Further reading
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “औरत”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 150
Old Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت ('awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).
Noun
औरत (aurata) f
Descendants
Further reading
- Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 524