baraat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani بَرات‎ (barāt) / बरात (barāt), ultimately from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).

Noun

baraat (plural baraats)

(South Asia) A wedding procession carried out by the bridegroom in North India, West India, and Pakistan.
- 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 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.

Translations

a wedding procession

Bengali: বরযাত্রী (borjatri)
Gujarati: જાન f (jān), વરાત f (varāt)
Hindi: बरात (hi) f (barāt)
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਜੰਜ f (jañj), ਬਰਾਤ f (barāt), ਵਰਾਤ f (varāt)

Shahmukhi: جَنْج‎ f (jañj), بَرات‎ f (barāt), وَرات‎ f (varāt)
Marathi: वरात f (varāt)
Sanskrit: वरयात्रा (sa) (varayātrā)
Sindhi: ڄَڃَ‎‎ f (ǰaña)
Telugu: బారత్ (bārat)
Urdu: بَرات‎ f (barāt), بارات‎ f (bārāt)

Further reading

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

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