ઓરત

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, “genitals; nudity”), where the shift to "woman" in early New Indo-Aryan is because it is abominable to expose the female body in public.

• (Standard Gujarati) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɾət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: ઓરત

ઓરત • (ŏrat) f

1. woman
2. wife
3. (Islam) pudendum

• (woman, wife): સ્ત્રી (strī), નારી (nārī), બાઈડી (bāīḍī), મહિલા (mahilā)

• “ઓરત”, in Gujaratilexicon.com [Gujarati-English dictionary], Arnion Technologies, 2009.
• Mehta, Bhanusukhram Nirgunram, Mehta, Bharatram Bhanusukhram (1925) The Modern Gujarati-English Dictionary: (with Etymology, Idioms, Proverbs, Quotations, Botanical and Other Technical Terms)‎^[1], Baroda: M. C. Kothari, page 258, column 2