برات

برات • (barát)

1. brother

From Old Church Slavonic Бѣлградъ (Bělgradŭ), from бѣлъ (bělŭ, “white”) + градъ (gradŭ, “fortress, city”), from Proto-Slavic *bělъ and *gordъ. Doublet of بلغراد.

برات • (Berat)

1. Berat (a city in Albania)

• Albanian: Berat

• English: Berat

• Turkish: Berat

• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Berat”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 107

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /bə.ɾäːt̪ᵊ/
• Hyphenation: بَ‧رات

Borrowed from Urdu بَرات (barāt), from Paisaci Prakrit, from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).

بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)

1. Synonym of جَنْج (jañj, “wedding procession, baraat”).

Borrowed from Classical Persian برات (barāt).

بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)

1. destiny; fortune
2. piece of land or farm given as a prize by a monarch

   Synonym: جاگیر (jāger)

3. pension

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “برات”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “برات”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024

• بارات (bārāt)

First attested in c. 1693 as Middle Hindi بَرات (barāt), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā), a compound of वर (vará, “suitor, bridegroom, husband”) +‎ यात्रा (yā́trā, “journey”), literally “the groom's journey [to the bride]”.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.ɾɑːt̪/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪

بَرات • (barāt) f (Hindi spelling बरात)

1. baraat (marriage procession from the groom's home to the bride's)
2. (figurative) party, crowd

• “برات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “برات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “برات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “برات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “برات”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press