औरत

Hindi

औरत

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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• Hyphenation: औ‧रत
• Rhymes: -ət̪

Noun

औरत • (aurat) f (Urdu spelling عَورَت)

1. woman
2. wife

Declension

Declension of औरत (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	औरत aurat	औरतें auratẽ
oblique	औरत aurat	औरतों auratõ
vocative	औरत aurat	औरतो aurato

Synonyms

• महिला (mahilā)
• नारी (nārī)
• स्त्री (strī), तिय (tiya)

Antonyms

• आदमी (ādmī)
• नर (nar)
• पुरुष (puruṣ)

See also

• इन्सान (insān)
• मानव (mānav)
• मनुष्य (manuṣya)

Further reading

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

Old Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).

Noun

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

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

Descendants

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

  Hindi: औरत (aurat)

  Urdu: عَورَت (‘aurat)

  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਔਰਤ (aurat)
    • Shahmukhi script: عَورَت (ʻaurat)

• Kannauji: अउरत, औरत

Further reading

• 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