Herat

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

• IPA^(key): /hɛɹɑːt/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt

Herat

1. A city, the capital of Herat province, Afghanistan, dating back to Avestan times.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 5:

     He [...] told her that Herat, the city where Mariam was born, in 1959, had once been the cradle of Persian culture, the home of writers, painters, and Sufis.

2. A province of Afghanistan.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 381:

     Shortly before they cross the border into Herat, they pass an Afghan refugee camp.

• Aria
• Harev
• Hari

• Erath, rehat, ather-, Earth, Herta, Harte, rathe, Rathe, heart, earth, th'are, thare, hater, Heart, Taher, Terah, Thera