औरत

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औरत

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (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/,
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: औ‧रत
Rhymes: -ət̪

Noun

औरत • (aurat) f (Urdu spelling عَورَت)

woman
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

Synonyms

महिला (mahilā)
नारी (nārī)
स्त्री (strī), तिय (tiya)

Antonyms

आदमी (ādmī)
नर (nar)
पुरुष (puruṣ)

See also

इन्सान (insān)
मानव (mānav)
मनुष्य (manuṣya)

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 (awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).

Noun

औरत (aurata) f (Perso-Arabic عَورَت)

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.

Descendants

Braj: औरत (aurat)
Bundeli: औरत (aurat)
Hindustani:
Hindi: औरत (aurat)
Urdu: عَورَت (‘aurat)
- → Punjabi:
  - Gurmukhi script: ਔਰਤ (aurat)
  - Shahmukhi script: عَورَت (ʻaurat)
Kannauji: अउरत, औरत

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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