جرأت

Urdu

Alternative forms

• جُرَّات (jurrāt)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جرأت (jurrat), from Arabic جُرْأَة (jurʔa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊɾ.ɾət̪/, [d͡ʒʊrˑət̪]
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: جُرّ‧ءَت

Noun

جُرّأَت • (jurrat) m (Hindi spelling जुर्रत)

1. temerity; audacity; dare

   Synonym: ہِمَّت (himmat)

2. courage; nerve

   Synonym: دِلیری (dilerī)

Declension

Declension of جرأت
	singular	plural
direct	جرأت (jurrat)	جرأت (jurrat)
oblique	جرأت (jurrat)	جرأتوں (jurratō̃)
vocative	جرأت (jurrat)	جرأتو (jurratō)

Further reading

• “جرأت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جرأت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جرآت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “جرأت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “جرات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 471
• John Shakespear (1834) “جرات”, 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