هرات

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian هَرَات (harāt), from Arabic هَرَاة (harāh), from Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠harēw⁠/).

Proper noun

هَرات • (Herât)

1. Herat (a city in Afghanistan)

Related terms

• هَرَوی (Herevî)

Descendants

• Turkish: Herat

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “2162”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَرَاة (harāh, “Herat”), itself borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hlyb' /⁠harēw⁠/), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎼𐎡𐎺 (h-r-i-v /⁠haraiva⁠/), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow, run”); see also Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬊𐬌𐬎𐬎𐬀 (haroiuua).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ha.ˈɾɑːt]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.ɾɑ́ːt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.ɾɑ́ːt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ɾɑ́ːt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ɾɔ́ːt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.ɹɒ́ːt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hi.ɾɔ́t̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	harāt
Dari reading?	harāt
Iranian reading?	harât
Tajik reading?	hirot

Proper noun

Dari	هرات
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Ҳирот

هرات • (harât)

1. Herat (a city in Afghanistan)
2. Herat (a province of Afghanistan)

   ولایت هرات ― wilāyat-i harāt ― the province of Herat, Herat Province

Synonyms

• هریو (hariv)
• هری (hari)

Derived terms

• هراتی (harâti)

Related terms

• هروی (haravi)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: هَرات (Herât)
  • Turkish: Herat

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “هرات”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim