औरत

Borrowed from Classical Persian عورت‎ ('aurat, “genitals; nudity”), from Arabic عَوْرَة‎ (ʕawra, “genitals; nudity”). First attested as Old Hindi औरत (aurata).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɔː.ɾət̪/

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औरत • (aurat) f (Urdu spelling عَورَت‎)

1. woman
2. wife

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

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

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

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian عورت‎ ('aurat), from Arabic عَوْرَة‎ (ʕawra).

औरत (aurata)

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

• Hindustani: aurat

  Hindi: औरत

  Urdu: عَورَت‎

• 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