برات
Baluchi
Noun
برات • (barát)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic بَرَاءَة (barāʔa, “license, patent”).
Noun
برات • (berât) (definite accusative براتی (berâtı), plural براوات (berevât))
- licence, permit, any legal document or artifact giving official permission to do something
- Synonym: تذكره (tezkere)
- patent, any official document granting an appointment, privilege, right, or some property
- charter, any document issued by an authority conferring rights and privileges on a person
Derived terms
- اختراع براتی (ihtirâʼ berâtı, “invention patent”)
- برات كیجهسی (berât gecesi, “the fourth Kandil night”)
- براتلو (berâtlı, “holder of a licence or patent”)
- سنجاق براتی (sancak berâtı, “licence of gauging”)
- قونسلوس براتی (konsolos berâtı, “exequatur”)
Descendants
- Turkish: berat
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “برات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 292
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “berat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 552
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “berât”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 107
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 258
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Diploma”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 397
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “برات”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 744
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “berat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 351
Etymology 2
From Old Church Slavonic Бѣлградъ (Bělgradŭ), from бѣлъ (bělŭ, “white”) + градъ (gradŭ, “fortress, city”), from Proto-Slavic *bělъ and *gordъ. Doublet of بلغراد (belgrad).
Proper noun
برات • (berat)
Descendants
- Albanian: Berat
- English: Berat
- Turkish: Berat
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 351
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Berat”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][7], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 107
Punjabi
Pronunciation
- (Standard Punjabi) IPA(key): /bə.ɾäːt̪ᵊ/
- Hyphenation: بَ‧رات
Etymology 1
Inherited from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).[1]
Noun
بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Classical Persian برات (barāt).
Noun
بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | بَرات (barāt) | بَراتاں (barātāṉ) |
| oblique | بَرات (barāt) | بَراتاں (barātāṉ) |
| vocative | بَراتے (barāte) | بَراتو (barāto) |
| ablative | بَراتوں (barātoṉ) | بَراتاں (barātāṉ) |
| locative | بَراتی (barātī) | بَراتِیں (barātīṉ) |
| instrumental | بَراتِیں (barātīṉ) | بَراتے (barāte) |
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “برات”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
- “برات”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
Urdu
Alternative forms
- بارات (bārāt)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi برات (brat /barāt/) (c. 1693),[1] from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā), a compound of वर (vará, “suitor, bridegroom, husband”) + यात्रा (yā́trā, “journey”), literally “the groom's journey [to the bride]”.[2]
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bə.ɾɑːt̪/
- Rhymes: -ɑːt̪
- Hyphenation: بَ‧رات
Noun
بَرات • (barāt) f (Hindi spelling बरात)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | بَرات (barāt) | (barātẽ) |
| oblique | (barāt) | (barātõ) |
| vocative | (barāt) | (barāto) |
Descendants
- → Gujarati: બરાત (barāt)
References
- ^ “برات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Further reading
More information
- “برات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- 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, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC