جرأت
Urdu
Alternative forms
- جُرَّات (jurrāt)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian جُرْأَت (jur'at), from Arabic جُرْأَة (jurʔa).[1][2] First attested in c. 1741[3] as Middle Hindi جرات (jrat /jurat/).[4]
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d͡ʒʊɾ.ɾət̪/, [d͡ʒʊrˑət̪]
- Rhymes: -ət̪
- Hyphenation: جُرّ‧ءَت
Noun
جُرّأَت • (jurrat) m (Hindi spelling जुर्रत)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | جرأت (jurrat) | جرأت (jurrat) |
| oblique | جرأت (jurrat) | جرأتوں (jurratõ) |
| vocative | جرأت (jurrat) | جرأتو (jurrato) |
References
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “جرأت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 379
- ^ S. W. Fallon (1879) “جرات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 471
- ^ “جُرْأَت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “jurrat”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 390.
Further reading
- “جرأت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جرآت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “جرات”, 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