औरत

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat, “woman, wife”), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, “awrah, pudendum”). First attested in c. 1420 as Old Hindi औरत (aurata) / عَورَت ('vrt).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɔː.ɾət̪/, [ɔː.ɾɐt̪]

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• Hyphenation: औ‧रत
• Rhymes: -ət̪

औरत • (aurat) f (Urdu spelling عَورَت)

1. woman

   Synonyms: महिला (mahilā), नारी (nārī), स्त्री (strī), तिय (tiya)

   Antonyms: आदमी (ādmī), नर (nar), पुरुष (puruṣ)

   Hypernyms: इन्सान (insān), मानव (mānav), मनुष्य (manuṣya)

2. wife

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “औरत”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 150

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat), borrowed from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra). First attested in c. 1420.

औरत (aurata) f (Perso-Arabic عَورَت)

1. woman
   • c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 280.6:

     जेती औरत मरदां सिरजे
     ए सब रूप तुम्हारा

     jetī aurata maradā̃ siraje
     e saba rūpa tumhārā

     as many women [and] men were created
     these [are] all to your likeness

   • 1503, نَو سَرْہَار (nau sarhār), 61:

     نَفَر چاکَر بانْد غُلام
     عَورَت مَرْد ہور خاص و عام

     nfr cakr band ġlam
     'vrt mrd hvr xaṣ v 'am

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     These examples are from a period later than Middle Indo-Aryan.

• Braj: औरत (aurat)
• Bundeli: औरत (aurat)
• Hindustani:

  Hindi: औरत (aurat)

  Urdu: عَورَت (‘aurat)

• Kannauji: अउरत, औरत

• Jaroslav Strnad (2013), Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 524