भाटा

• भाठा (bhāṭhā)

Grassman variant of भाठा (bhāṭhā), from Prakrit भट्ठ (bhaṭṭha), from Sanskrit भ्रष्ट (bhraṣṭa, “fallen, ruined”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰraštás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrn̥ḱtós (“deviated, corrupted”), from *bʰrenḱ- (“to deviate, corrupt”).

There was semantic shift in Prakrits from moral decline to literal (physical) decline, often in relation with water. Cognate with Assamese ভাটা (bhata), Bengali ভাটা (bhaṭa), Odia ଭଟା (bhaṭā), Bihari भाठ (bhāṭh, “land which retains moisture”), Gujarati ભાઠ (bhāṭh, “shoal, shallow”), Sindhi ڀاٽو (bhāṭho), Sinhalese බට (baṭa, “descent”). Doublet of भ्रष्ट (bhraṣṭ) and भाठ (bhāṭh). Related to भटकना (bhaṭaknā), भठियाना (bhaṭhiyānā, “to ebb”), and Old Hindi भाठी (bhāṭhī, “downstream”).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /bʱɑː.ʈɑː/, [bʱäː.ʈäː]

भाटा • (bhāṭā) m (Urdu spelling بھاٹا)

1. outward flow, ebb tide

   भाटा आना ― bhāṭā ānā ― to ebb

2. low tide

   Antonym: ज्वार (jvār)

• ज्वार-भाटा (jvār-bhāṭā, “ebb and flow, the tide”)
• सार-भाटा (sār-bhāṭā, “low tide”)

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