Herat

See also: herat

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
• Rhymes: -ɑːt

Proper noun

Herat

1. A city, the capital of Herat province, Afghanistan, dating back to Avestan times.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 5:

     He [...] told her that Herat, the city where Mariam was born, in 1959, had once been the cradle of Persian culture, the home of writers, painters, and Sufis.

2. A province of Afghanistan.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 381:

     Shortly before they cross the border into Herat, they pass an Afghan refugee camp.

Related terms

• Aria
• Harev
• Hari

Translations

city in Afghanistan

• Arabic: هَرَاة f (harāh)
• Armenian: Հերաթ (Heratʻ)
• Bengali: হেরাত (herat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赫拉特 (zh) (Hèlātè)

• Hindi: हेरात m (herāt)
• Japanese: ヘラート (Herāto)
• Marathi: हेरात (herāt)
• Old Persian: 𐏃𐎼𐎡𐎺 (h-r-i-v)
• Ottoman Turkish: هَرات (Herât)
• Pashto: هرات (herāt)
• Persian: هرات (fa) (harât)
• Polish: Herat (pl) m
• Russian: Гера́т m (Gerát)
• Tajik: Ҳирот (Hirot)
• Turkish: Herat
• Uyghur: ھىرات (hirat)

province of Afghanistan

• Bengali: হেরাত (herat)
• Marathi: हेरात (herāt)
• Polish: Herat (pl) m

Anagrams

• Erath, rehat, ather-, Earth, Herta, Harte, rathe, Rathe, heart, earth, th'are, thare, hater, Heart, Taher, Terah, Thera