هرات
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian هَرَات (harāt), from Arabic هَرَاة (harāh), from Middle Persian [Term?] (/harēw/).
Proper noun
هَرات • (Herât)
- Herat (a city in Afghanistan)
Related terms
- هَرَوی (Herevî)
Descendants
- Turkish: Herat
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “2162”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic هَرَاة (harāh, “Herat”), itself borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hlyb' /harēw/), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎼𐎡𐎺 (h-r-i-v /haraiva/), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow, run”); see also Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬊𐬌𐬎𐬎𐬀 (haroiuua).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ha.ˈɾaːt/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [hä.ɾɑ́ːt̪]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [hæ.ɹɒ́ːt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [hi.ɾɔ́t̪]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | harāt |
| Dari reading? | harāt |
| Iranian reading? | harât |
| Tajik reading? | hirot |
Proper noun
| Dari | هرات |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | Ҳирот |
هرات • (harât)
- Herat (a city in Afghanistan)
- Herat (a province of Afghanistan)
- ولایت هرات ― wilāyat-i harāt ― the province of Herat, Herat Province
Synonyms
- هریو (hariv)
- هری (hari)
Derived terms
- هراتی (harâti)
Related terms
- هروی (haravi)
Descendants
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “هرات”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim