रति

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit रति (ráti).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɾə.t̪iː/,

रति • (rati) f (Urdu spelling رتی)

1. pleasure, enjoyment, delight, joy
2. desire, love, attachment, fondness, regard, favour

   Antonym: अरति (arati)

3. the pleasure of love, sexual passion

   Synonym: रतिरस (ratiras)

4. sexual intercourse

रति • (rati) f (Urdu spelling رتی)

1. Rati, the wife of Kamadeva

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “रति”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “रति”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

From the root रम् (ram, “to enjoy”) +‎ -ति (-ti).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɾɐ́.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɾɐ.t̪i/

रति • (ráti) stem, f

1. name of the sixth kala of the moon
2. name of an apsaras
3. name of the wife of vibhu (mother of pṛthuṣeṇa)
4. name of a magical incantation recited over weapons
5. name of a metre
6. Rati, the wife of kāmadeva

रति • (ráti) stem, f

1. rest, repose
2. pleasure, enjoyment, delight in, fondness
3. the pleasure of love, sexual passion or union, amorous enjoyment
4. the pudenda
5. pleasure house

• → Telugu: రతి (rati)
• → Hindi: रति (rati)

• Monier Williams (1899) “रति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 867.