घट्ट

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• IPA^(key): /ɡʱəʈ.ʈə/

घट्ट • (ghaṭṭa)

1. tight

   Antonyms: सैल (sail), ढिले (ḍhile)

2. thick

   Synonym: जाड (j̈āḍ)

घट्ट • (ghaṭṭa)

1. tightly
2. thickly

1. घट्टपणे (ghaṭṭapaṇe)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “घट्ट”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “घट्ट”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911) “घट्ट”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press

Borrowed from Dravidian;^[1] compare Telugu గట్టు (gaṭṭu, “dam, embankment”), కట్ట (kaṭṭa, “dam, embankment”), derived from కట్టు (kaṭṭu, “to tie”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡʱɐʈ.ʈɐ/,
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʱɐʈ.ʈɐ/,

घट्ट • (ghaṭṭa) stem, m

1. a quay or landing-place, wharf
2. bathing-place
3. steps by a riverside
4. ferry

• Dardic:
  • Kashmiri: گاٹھ (gāṭh)
• Southern:
  • Marathi: घाट (ghāṭ, “mountain pass”)
  • Konkani: घाटु (ghāṭu)
• Eastern:
  • Assamese: ঘাট (ghat)
  • Bengali: ঘাট (ghaṭ)
  • Bihari:
    • Bhojpuri: घाट (ghāṭ, “bathing or landing place”)
  • Odia: ଘାଟ (ghāṭa, “ferry, wharf”), ଘାଟୀ (ghāṭi, “mountain pass”)
  • Rohingya: gáñth
• Western:
  • Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਘਾਟ (ghāṭ), ਘਾੱਟਾ (ghāṭṭā), ਘਾੱਟੀ (ghāṭṭī)
    • Shahmukhi script: گھَاٹ (ghāṭ), گھَاٹَّا (ghāṭṭā), گھَاٹِّی (ghāṭṭiī)
  • Sindhi: گهَٽُ (ghaṭu, “passage, path”), گھِٽِي (ghiṭī, “street, alley”), گھَاٽُ (ghāṭu, “pass, landing place”)
• Northern:
  • Kumaoni: घाट (ghāṭ, “crossing place”)
  • Nepali: घाट (ghāṭ, “ford, landing place”), घाटि (ghāṭi, “mountain pass”)
• Central:
  • Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀖𑀝𑁆𑀝 (ghaṭṭa)
    • Gujarati: ઘાટ (ghāṭ, “mountain pass”)
    • Hindi: घाट (ghāṭ)
      • → English: ghat, Ghats
      • → Italian: Ghati
      • → Portuguese: Gate
    • Hindi: घाटा (ghāṭā, “mountain pass”), घाटी (ghāṭī, “defile”)
• → Telugu: ఘట్టము (ghaṭṭamu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “घट्ट”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0375/3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 167
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1956) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 356