ghats
US/ɡɑts/
ghats is the plural of ghat.
Meaning of ghat
Noun
ghat (plural ghats)
- 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 monsoon1855, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Flora Indica
- 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.2023 November 30, Oliver Franklin-Wallis, “Inside India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River”, in Wired, →ISSN
- 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 Ghats1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India
Proper noun capitalized: Ghats
Ghats pl
Forms of ghats
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Origin of ghats
Borrowed from Hindi घाट (ghāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀖𑀝𑁆𑀝 (ghaṭṭa), from Sanskrit घट्ट (ghaṭṭa), ultimately derived from Dravidian.
Phrases with ghats
Questions about ghats
- What does ghats mean?
- Ghats means a pair of mountain ranges along the southern Indian coasts.
- What is ghats the plural of?
- Ghats is the plural of ghat.
- What part of speech is ghats?
- Ghats is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ghats?
- Ghats is pronounced /ɡɑts/ (US).
Words near ghats in the dictionary
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