औरत

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औरत

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)/عَورَت ('vrt).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /ɔː.ɾət̪/,
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  • Hyphenation: औ‧रत
  • Rhymes: -ət̪

Noun

औरत • (aurat) f (Urdu spelling عَورَت)

  1. woman
  2. wife

Declension

Declension of औरत (fem cons-stem)
singular plural
direct औरत
aurat 		औरतें
auratẽ
oblique औरत
aurat 		औरतों
auratõ
vocative औरत
aurat 		औरतो
aurato

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Old Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).

Noun

औरत (aurata) f (Perso-Arabic عَورَت)

  1. woman
    • c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 280.6:
      जेती औरत मरदां सिरजे
      ए सब रूप तुम्हारा
      jetī aurata maradā̃ siraje
      e saba rūpa tumhārā
      as many women men were created
      these all to your likeness
    • 1503, نَو سَرْہَار (nau sarhār), 61 :
      نَفَر چاکَر بانْد غُلام
      عَورَت مَرْد ہور خاص و عام
      nfr cakr band ġlam
      'vrt mrd hvr xaṣ v 'am
      These examples are from a period later than Middle Indo-Aryan.

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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
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