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Urdu
Etymology
First attested in c. 1780 as Middle Hindi ہاٹ (haṭ)[1] and Old Hindi हाट (hāṭa) in c. 1420,[2] inherited from Prakrit 𑀳𑀝𑁆𑀝 m (haṭṭa), 𑀳𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀻 f (haṭṭī), from Sanskrit हट्ट m (haṭṭa, “market; fair”), हट्टी f (haṭṭī, “small market or fair”).[3] Cogante with Bengali হাট (haṭ), Gujarati હાટ (hāṭ), Punjabi ہٹ / ਹੱਟ (haṭṭ), and Sindhi هَٽُ (haṭu).
Pronunciation
Noun
ہاٹ • (hāṭ) f (Hindi spelling हाट)
- market, marketplace
- Synonym: بازار (bāzār)
- flea market
- market day
- Synonym: پَینٹھ (painṭh)
References
- ^ “ہاٹ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ 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 571
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “haṭṭa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 806
Further reading
- “ہاٹ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “ہاٹ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہاٹ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “هاٿ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “هاٿ”, 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