व्रत

Borrowed from Sanskrit व्रत (vratá).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɾət̪/

व्रत • (vrat) m

1. fast

   व्रत रखना ― vrat rakhnā ― to fast

1. vow

   व्रत लेना ― vrat lenā ― to take a vow

   व्रत करना ― vrat karnā ― to make a vow

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wratám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wratám, from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to speak, say”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬬𐬁𐬙𐬀‎ (urvāta), Old English word (whence English word).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɽɐ.t̪ɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɽɐ.t̪ɐ/

व्रत • (vratá) n

1. will
2. command
3. law
4. ordinance
5. rule
6. obedience
7. service
8. dominion, realm
9. sphere of action, function, mode or manner of life
10. conduct
11. manner, usage, custom
12. a religious vow or practice
13. any pious observance
14. meritorious act of devotion or austerity
15. solemn vow
16. rule
17. holy practice

• Hindi: व्रत (vrat)
• → Tocharian B: wrat

• Monier Williams (1899), “व्रत”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 1042.