ઓરત

Gujarati

Alternative forms

• ઔરત (aurat)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عورت (awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, “genitals; nudity”) with a semantic shift to "woman" in early New Indo-Aryan is because it is abominable to expose the female body in public.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Gujarati) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɾət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: ઓરત

Noun

ઓરત • (orat) f

1. woman

   Synonyms: સ્ત્રી (strī), નારી (nārī), બાઈડી (bāīḍī), મહિલા (mahilā)

2. wife
3. (Islam) pudendum

Declension

Declension of ઓરત
	singular	plural
nominative	ઓરત (orat)	ઓરતો (orato)
oblique	ઓરત (orat)	ઓરતો (orato)
vocative	ઓરત (orat)	ઓરતો (orato)
instrumental	ઓરતે (orate)	ઓરતોએ (oratoe)
locative	ઓરતે (orate)	ઓરતોએ (oratoe)