رات

See also: رأت and ذات

Kalkoti

Noun

رات (rāt)

1. blood
2. night

Kundal Shahi

Noun

رات (rāt)

1. blood

References

• https://fli-online.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/kundal_shahi_introduction.pdf

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

رات • (rat)

1. (falconry) lure

Derived terms

• رات كوسترمك (rat göstermek, “to show the lure to a hawk”)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 953

Sindhi

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀭𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺 (ratti), from Sanskrit रात्रि (rātri).

Noun

رات • (rāt)

1. night

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi رات (rāt) / رت (rat) / رتی (/⁠ratī⁠/), from Old Hindi رت (rat) / رتی (/⁠ratī⁠/), inherited from Prakrit 𑀭𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺 (ratti), from Sanskrit रात्रि (rā́trī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾɑːt̪/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪

Noun

رات • (rāt) f (Hindi spelling रात)

1. night, nighttime

   رات کو چاند نکلتا ہے۔

   rāt ko cānd nikaltā hai.

   The moon comes out at night.

2. eve

   جمعرات ― jumi'rāt ― Thursday (literally, “friday eve”)

   چاند رات ― cānd rāt ― night of the moon (literally, “moon eve”)

3. (figuratively) darkness, dark

Declension

Declension of رات
	singular	plural
direct	رات (rāt)	راتیں (rātẽ)
oblique	رات (rāt)	راتوں (rātõ)
vocative	رات (rāt)	راتو (rāto)

Synonyms

• (evening or night time): شَب (śab), لیل (lel), رَین (rain), عِشا (’iśā)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “evening or night time”): دِن (din), صُبَح (ṣubaḥ), فَجَر (fajar)

Further reading

• “رات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “رات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “رات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “رات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “رات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “رات”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “rā́trī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 619