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برات (barát)

  1. brother

Borrowed from Arabic بَرَاءَة (barāʔa, license, patent).

برات (berât) (definite accusative براتی (berâtı), plural براوات (berevât))

  1. licence, permit, any legal document or artifact giving official permission to do something
    Synonym: تذكره (tezkere)
  2. patent, any official document granting an appointment, privilege, right, or some property
  3. charter, any document issued by an authority conferring rights and privileges on a person

From Old Church Slavonic Бѣлградъ (Bělgradŭ), from бѣлъ (bělŭ, white) + градъ (gradŭ, fortress, city), from Proto-Slavic *bělъ and *gordъ. Doublet of بلغراد (belgrad).

برات (berat)

  1. Berat (a city in south-central Albania)
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 351
  • Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Berat”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎[7], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 107

Inherited from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).[1]

بَرات (barātf (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)

  1. Synonym of جَنْج (jañj, wedding procession, baraat).

Borrowed from Classical Persian برات (barāt).

بَرات (barātf (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)

  1. destiny; fortune
  2. piece of land or farm given as a prize by a monarch
    Synonym: جاگیر (jāger)
  3. pension
  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “برات”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
  • برات”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

First attested in c. 1693 as Middle Hindi بَرات (barāt),[1] from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā), a compound of वर (vará, suitor, bridegroom, husband) +‎ यात्रा (yā́trā, journey), literally the groom's journey [to the bride].[2]

بَرات (barātf (Hindi spelling बरात)

  1. baraat (marriage procession from the groom's home to the bride's)
  2. (figurative) party, crowd
Declension of برات
singular plural
direct برات (barāt) براتیں (barātẽ)
oblique برات (barāt) براتوں (barātõ)
vocative برات (barāt) براتو (barāto)
  1. ^ برات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

More information

  • برات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “برات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “برات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “برات”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC