هرات

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian هَرَات (harāt), from Arabic هَرَاة (harāh), from Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠harēw⁠/).

Proper noun

هَرات • (Herât)

  1. Herat (a city in Afghanistan)
  • 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

 

Readings
Classical reading? harāt
Dari reading? harāt
Iranian reading? harât
Tajik reading? hirot

Proper noun

Dari هرات
Iranian Persian
Tajik Ҳирот

هرات • (harât)

  1. Herat (a city in Afghanistan)
  2. Herat (a province of Afghanistan)
    ولایت هراتwilāyat-i harātthe province of Herat, Herat Province

Synonyms

  • هریو (hariv)
  • هری (hari)

Derived terms

  • هروی (haravi)

Descendants

Further reading