فرات

Borrowed from Arabic الْفُرَات (al-furāt), ultimately from Akkadian 𒀀𒇉𒌓𒄒𒉣 (^ÍD<Purattu).

فرات • (furat or fırat)

1. Euphrates (a river in West Asia, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf)

• > Turkish: Fırat, Furat (inherited)

• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “فرات”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 340a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “فرات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 889
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Euphrates”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 487
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “فرات”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3480
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “فرات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1370

Borrowed from Arabic الْفُرَات (al-furāt).

فرات • (furāt / forât) (Tajik spelling Фурот)

1. Euphrates (a river in West Asia, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf)

• → Azerbaijani: Fərat
• → Bengali: ফোরাত (phōrat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: फ़रात (farāt), (nuqtaless) फरात (pharāt)

  Urdu: فرات (farāt, furāt)

• → Ottoman Turkish: فرات (fırât, furât)
  • > Turkish: Fırat, Furat (inherited)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਫ਼ਰਾਤ (farāt)

  Shahmukhi script: فرات (farāt, furāt)

Borrowed from Classical Persian فرات (furāt), from Arabic الْفُرَات (al-furāt), ultimately from Akkadian 𒀀𒇉𒌓𒄒𒉣 (^ÍDPurattu).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fʊ.ɾɑːt̪/,

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fə.ɾɑːt̪/

فُرات or فَرات • (furāt or farāt) m (Hindi spelling फ़रात)

1. Euphrates (a river in West Asia, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf)

• “فرات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “فرات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.