هرات

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

هَرات • (Herât)

  1. Herat (a city in Afghanistan)

Descendants

  • Turkish: Herat

Further reading

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “2162”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian هرات (harāt), Borrowed from Arabic هَرَاة (harāh), from Classical Persian هَریوْ (harēw), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hlyb' /⁠harēw⁠/), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎼𐎡𐎺 (h-r-i-v /⁠haraiva⁠/).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ha.rɑːt̪]

Proper noun

هرات • (harāt)

  1. Herat (a city in Afghanistan)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَرَاة (harāh, Herat), from Classical Persian هَریوْ (harēw), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hlyb' /⁠harēw⁠/), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎼𐎡𐎺 (h-r-i-v /⁠haraiva⁠/), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (to flow, run); see also Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬊𐬌𐬎𐬎𐬀 (haroiuua).

Compare Persian حمات (hamât, Hamat), from Arabic حَمَاة (ḥamāh).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? harāt
Dari reading? harāt
Iranian reading? harât
Tajik reading? hirot

Proper noun

Dari هرات
Iranian Persian
Tajik Ҳирот

هرات • (harât)

  1. Herat (a city in Afghanistan)
  2. Herat (a province of Afghanistan)
    ولایت هراتwilāyat-i harātthe province of Herat, Herat Province

Synonyms

  • هریو (hariv)
  • هری (hari)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading