baraat

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Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani بَرات (barāt) / बरात (barāt), ultimately from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).

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baraat (plural baraats)

  1. (South Asia) A wedding procession carried out by the bridegroom in North India, West India, and Pakistan.
    • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 64:
      ‘There must be no lavish display of wealth, no big baraats or bands, exploding of fireworks and that kind of vulgarity.’
An Indian baraat in the United Kingdom.

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