برات

See also: تراب and تراث

Baluchi

Noun

برات • (barát)

1. brother

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic بَرَاءَة (barāʔa, “license, patent”).

Noun

برات • (berât) (definite accusative براتی (berâtı), plural براوات (berevât))

1. licence, permit, any legal document or artifact giving official permission to do something

   Synonym: تذكره (tezkere)

2. patent, any official document granting an appointment, privilege, right, or some property
3. charter, any document issued by an authority conferring rights and privileges on a person

Derived terms

• اختراع براتی (ihtirâʼ berâtı, “invention patent”)
• برات كیجه‌سی (berât gecesi, “the fourth Kandil night”)
• براتلو (berâtlı, “holder of a licence or patent”)
• سنجاق براتی (sancak berâtı, “licence of gauging”)
• قونسلوس براتی (konsolos berâtı, “exequatur”)

Descendants

• Turkish: berat

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “برات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 292
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “berat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 552
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “berât”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 107
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “برات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 258
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Diploma”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 397
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “برات”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 744
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “berat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “برات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 351

Etymology 2

From Old Church Slavonic Бѣлградъ (Bělgradŭ), from бѣлъ (bělŭ, “white”) + градъ (gradŭ, “fortress, city”), from Proto-Slavic *bělъ and *gordъ. Doublet of بلغراد (belgrad).

Proper noun

برات • (berat)

1. Berat (a city in south-central Albania)

Descendants

• Albanian: Berat

• English: Berat

• Turkish: Berat

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “برات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 351
• Sezen, Tahir (2017), “Berat”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[7], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 107

Punjabi

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /bə.ɾäːt̪ᵊ/
• Hyphenation: بَ‧رات

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).

Noun

بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)

1. synonym of جَنْج (jañj, “wedding procession, baraat”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian برات (barāt).

Noun

بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)

1. destiny; fortune
2. piece of land or farm given as a prize by a monarch

   Synonym: جاگیر (jāger)

3. pension

Declension

Declension of برات

	singular	plural
direct	بَرات (barāt)	بَراتاں (barātāṉ)
oblique	بَرات (barāt)	بَراتاں (barātāṉ)
vocative	بَراتے (barāte)	بَراتو (barāto)
ablative	بَراتوں (barātoṉ)	—
locative	بَراتی (barātī)	بَراتِیں (barātīṉ)
instrumental	بَراتے (barāte)	بَراتِیں (barātīṉ)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “برات”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• “برات”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2026

Urdu

Alternative forms

• بارات (bārāt)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi برات (brat /⁠barāt⁠/) (c. 1693), from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā), a compound of वर (vará, “suitor, bridegroom, husband”) +‎ यात्रा (yā́trā, “journey”), literally “the groom's journey [to the bride]”.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.ɾɑːt̪/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪
• Hyphenation: بَ‧رات

Noun

بَرات • (barāt) f (Hindi spelling बरात)

1. baraat (marriage procession from the groom's home to the bride's)
2. (figurative) party, crowd

Declension

Declension of برات

	singular	plural
direct	بَرات (barāt)	بَراتیں (barātẽ)
oblique	بَرات (barāt)	بَراتوں (barātõ)
vocative	بَرات (barāt)	بَراتو (barāto)

Descendants

• → Gujarati: બરાત (barāt)

Further reading

More information

• “برات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “برات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “برات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “برات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834), “برات”, 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