راحت

Arabic

Verb

رَاحَتْ • (rāḥat) (form I) /raː.ħat/

  1. third-person feminine singular past active of رَاحَ (rāḥa)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa).

Noun

راحت • (rahat)

  1. ease, rest, repose, tranquility, comfort
  2. anything that gives ease or pleasure; a solace, a comfort

Adjective

راحت • (rahat)

  1. at ease
  2. quiet, tranquil
  3. comfortable, easy

Adverb

راحت • (rahat)

  1. comfortably, quietly

Descendants

  • Turkish: rahat
  • → Adyghe: рэхьат (rɛḥat)
  • → Albanian: rehat
  • → Bulgarian: раха́т (rahát)
  • → Crimean Tatar: raat
  • → Greek: ραχάτι (racháti)
  • → Macedonian: раат (raat)
  • → Romanian: rahat
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ráhat / ра́хат

Further reading

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “راحت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian

Persian

Dari راحت
Iranian Persian
Tajik роҳат

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa).

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? rāhat
    Dari reading? rāhat
    Iranian reading? râhat
    Tajik reading? rohat

    Noun

    راحت • (râhat)

    1. comfort
    2. repose

    Adjective

    راحت • (râhat) (comparative راحت‌تَر, superlative راحت‌تَرین)

    1. comfortable
      Antonym: ناراحت (nârâhat)
    2. at ease
    3. easy
      Antonym: سخت (saxt)

    Derived terms

    Urdu

    Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa)bor.
      Classical Persian رَاحَت (rāhat)bor.
      Urdu رَاحَت (rāhat)

      Borrowed from Classical Persian رَاحَت (rāhat), borrowed from Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa).[1] First attested in c. 1586 as Middle Hindi راحت (raḥt /⁠rāhat⁠/).[2]

      Pronunciation

      • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɾɑː.ɦət̪/
      • Rhymes: -ət̪
      • Hyphenation: رَا‧حَت

      Noun

      رَاحَت • (rāhat) f (Hindi spelling राहत)

      1. comfort, relief, respite, tranquillity
        Synonyms: سُکُون (sukūn), آسائِش (āsāiś), سُکھ (sukh), آرام (ārām)
      2. pleasure, joy
        Synonyms: خوشی (xośī), مَسَرَّت (masarrat), شادْمانی (śādmānī)
      3. (obsolete) reward

      Declension

      Declension of راحت
      singular plural
      direct رَاحَت (rāhat) رَاحَتیں (rāhatẽ)
      oblique رَاحَت (rāhat) رَاحَتوں (rāhatõ)
      vocative رَاحَت (rāhat) رَاحَتو (rāhato)

      References

      1. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “راحت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 580
      2. ^ “راحت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

      Further reading

      • “راحت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
      • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “راحت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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