برات

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See also: تراب and تراث

Baluchi

Noun

برات • (barát)

  1. brother

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic بَرَاءَة (barāʔa, “license, patent”).

Noun

برات • (berât) (definite accusative براتی (berâtı), plural براوات (berevât))

  1. licence, permit, any legal document or artifact giving official permission to do something
    Synonym: تذكره (tezkere)
  2. patent, any official document granting an appointment, privilege, right, or some property
  3. charter, any document issued by an authority conferring rights and privileges on a person
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Turkish: berat

Further reading

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Etymology 2

From Old Church Slavonic Бѣлградъ (Bělgradŭ), from бѣлъ (bělŭ, “white”) + градъ (gradŭ, “fortress, city”), from Proto-Slavic *bělъ and *gordъ. Doublet of بلغراد (belgrad).

Proper noun

برات • (berat)

  1. Berat (a city in south-central Albania)
Descendants

Further reading

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  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 351
  • Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Berat”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 107

Punjabi

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).[1]

Noun

بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)

  1. Synonym of جَنْج (jañj, “wedding procession, baraat”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian برات (barāt).

Noun

بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)

  1. destiny; fortune
  2. piece of land or farm given as a prize by a monarch
    Synonym: جاگیر (jāger)
  3. pension

Declension

Declension of برات
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) بَراتاں (barātāṉ)
locative بَراتی (barātī) بَراتِیں (barātīṉ)
instrumental بَراتِیں (barātīṉ) بَراتے (barāte)

References

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

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “برات”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
  • “برات”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024

Urdu

Alternative forms

Etymology

First attested in c. 1693 as Middle Hindi بَرات (barāt),[1] from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā), a compound of वर (vará, “suitor, bridegroom, husband”) +‎ यात्रा (yā́trā, “journey”), literally “the groom's journey ”.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

بَرات • (barāt) f (Hindi spelling बरात)

  1. baraat (marriage procession from the groom's home to the bride's)
  2. (figurative) party, crowd

Declension

    Declension of برات
singular plural
direct برات (barāt) براتیں (barātẽ)
oblique برات (barāt) براتوں (barātõ)
vocative برات (barāt) براتو (barāto)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ “برات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Further reading

More information
  • “برات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , 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
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