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ہاٹ

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Urdu

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Etymology

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First attested in c. 1780 as Middle Hindi ہاٹ (haṭ)[1] and Old Hindi हाट (hāṭa) in c. 1420,[2] inherited from Prakrit 𑀳𑀝𑁆𑀝 m (haṭṭa), 𑀳𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀻 f (haṭṭī), from Sanskrit हट्ट m (haṭṭa, market; fair), हट्टी f (haṭṭī, small market or fair).[3] Cogante with Bengali হাট (haṭ), Gujarati હાટ (hāṭ), Punjabi ہٹ / ਹੱਟ (haṭṭ), and Sindhi هَٽُ (haṭu).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ہاٹ (hāṭf (Hindi spelling हाट)

  1. market, marketplace
    Synonym: بازار (bāzār)
  2. flea market
  3. market day
    Synonym: پَینٹھ (painṭh)

References

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  1. ^ ہاٹ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ 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 571
  3. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “haṭṭa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 806

Further reading

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  • ہاٹ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ہاٹ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہاٹ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “هاٿ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “هاٿ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC