رات

رات (rāt)

1. blood
2. night

رات (rāt)

1. blood

• https://fli-online.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/kundal_shahi_introduction.pdf

رات • (rat)

1. (falconry) a falconer's lure

• رات كوسترمك (rat göstermek, “to show the lure to a hawk”)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 953

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀭𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺 (ratti), from Sanskrit रात्रि (rātri).

• IPA^(key): [rɑt̪ɪ]

راتِ • (rāti) f (Devanagari राति)

1. night

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “راتِ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• Khānu, Balocu (1960-1988) “راتِ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Ḥaidarābād, Sindhu: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ

Inherited from Middle Hindi رات (rāt) / رت (rat) / رتی (/⁠ratī⁠/), from Old Hindi رت (rat) / رتی (/⁠ratī⁠/), inherited from Prakrit 𑀭𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺 (ratti), from Sanskrit रात्रि (rā́trī).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾɑːt̪/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪

رات • (rāt) f (Hindi spelling रात)

1. night, nighttime

   رات کو چاند نکلتا ہے۔

   rāt ko cānd nikaltā hai.

   The moon comes out at night.

2. eve

   جمعرات ― jumi'rāt ― Thursday (literally, “friday eve”)

   چاند رات ― cānd rāt ― night of the moon (literally, “moon eve”)

3. (figuratively) darkness, dark

• (evening or night time): شَب (śab), لَیل (lail), رَین (rain), نِسا (nisā), عِشا (’iśā)

• (antonym(s) of “evening or night time”): دِن (din), صُبَح (ṣubaḥ), فَجَر (fajar)

• “رات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “رات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “رات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “رات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “رات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “رات”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “rā́trī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 619