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ghat
- /ɡɔːt/ UK
- /ɡɑːt/ UK
- /ɡʱaːʈ/ South Asia
- /ɡɑt/ US
Rhymes with -ɔːt
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Borrowed from Hindi घाट (ghāṭ, “flight of steps leading to a river; mountain pass”), from Sanskrit घट्ट (ghaṭṭa, “a landing-place, steps on the side of a river leading to the waters”), from Dravidian. Compare Telugu గట్టు (gaṭṭu, “dam, embankment”), కట్ట (kaṭṭa, “dam, embankment”), derived from కట్టు (kaṭṭu, “to tie”).
noun ghats · ghât · ghát · ghaut
- A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place. The abrupt escarpment of the western Ghats condenses so much of the moisture of the south-west monsoon
- A burning-ghat. On the steps of the Manikarnika ghat—the holiest of the city’s stepped riverbanks, upon which Hindu dead are cremated—the fires are already lit, and mourners assemble by the hundred to accompany their loved ones at the end.
- A mountain pass.
- A mountain range. And farther south, in the interior of the Peninsula, in the elevated tract from 1200 to 2400 feet above the sea, between the Eastern and Western Ghats
- Alternative form of ghut (“ravine leading to the sea”).
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