راحت

Arabic

Verb

رَاحَتْ • (rāḥat) (form I) /raː.ħat/

1. third-person feminine singular past active of رَاحَ (rāḥa)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa).

Noun

راحت • (rahat)

1. ease, rest, repose, tranquility, comfort
2. anything that gives ease or pleasure; a solace, a comfort

Related terms

• راحت الحلقوم (râhatü'l-hulkûm), (vulg.) راحت لوقوم (rahat lokum)

Adjective

راحت • (rahat)

1. at ease
2. quiet, tranquil
3. comfortable, easy

Adverb

راحت • (rahat)

1. comfortably, quietly

Descendants

• Turkish: rahat
• → Adyghe: рэхьат (rɛḥat)
• → Albanian: rehat
• → Bulgarian: раха́т (rahát)
• → Crimean Tatar: raat
• → Greek: ραχάτι (racháti)
• → Macedonian: раат (raat)
• → Romanian: rahat
• → Serbo-Croatian: ráhat / ра́хат

Further reading

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

Persian

Dari	راحت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	роҳат

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ɾaː.ˈhat/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rɑː.ɦǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rɑː.ɦǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rɑːǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rɔːǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹɒː.ɦǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾɔ.ɦǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	rāhat
Dari reading?	rāhat
Iranian reading?	râhat
Tajik reading?	rohat

Noun

راحت • (râhat)

1. comfort
2. repose

Adjective

راحت • (râhat) (comparative راحت‌تَر, superlative راحت‌تَرین)

1. comfortable

   Antonym: ناراحت (nârâhat)

2. at ease
3. easy

   Antonym: سخت (saxt)

Derived terms

• راحتی (râhati)

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa)bor.

Classical Persian رَاحَت (rāhat)bor.

Urdu رَاحَت (rāhat)

Borrowed from Classical Persian رَاحَت (rāhat), borrowed from Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa). First attested in c. 1586 as Middle Hindi راحت (raḥt /⁠rāhat⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾɑː.ɦət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: رَا‧حَت

Noun

رَاحَت • (rāhat) f (Hindi spelling राहत)

1. comfort, relief, respite, tranquillity

   Synonyms: سُکُون (sukūn), آسائِش (āsāiś), سُکھ (sukh), آرام (ārām)

2. pleasure, joy

   Synonyms: خوشی (xośī), مَسَرَّت (masarrat), شادْمانی (śādmānī)

3. (obsolete) reward

Declension

Declension of راحت

	singular	plural
direct	رَاحَت (rāhat)	رَاحَتیں (rāhatẽ)
oblique	رَاحَت (rāhat)	رَاحَتوں (rāhatõ)
vocative	رَاحَت (rāhat)	رَاحَتو (rāhato)

Further reading

• “راحت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “راحت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]