baraat

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Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi बरात (barāt), Urdu برات.

Noun

baraat (plural baraats)

  1. (South Asia) A wedding procession carried out by the bridegroom in North India, West India, and Pakistan.
    • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 64:
      ‘There must be no lavish display of wealth, no big baraats or bands, exploding of fireworks and that kind of vulgarity.’
An Indian baraat in the United Kingdom.

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