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jat

jat is the alternative spelling of yat.

Meaning of yat

Noun

yat (plural yats)

  1. A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use
  2. The Late Proto-Slavic (Common Slavic) vowel that was represented by this letter, usually transcribed as /ě/. This vowel underwent various alterations in the later Slavic dialects and is no longer distinguished (except in Ijekavian).

See all 5 meanings of yat

Noun capitalized: Jat

Jat (plural Jats or Jat)

  1. A member of a people of northwestern India and Pakistan.

Forms of jat

pluraljats
pluralJats
pluralJat
alternative Eastern-PunjabiJatt
alternative HindiJaat
alternative Urdu Western-PunjabiJutt
alternative form (dated)Jut

Origin of jat

From Hindi जाट (jāṭ), ultimately from Sanskrit जर्तिक (jartika), of further unknown origin. Initially the name of a low-ranking tribe of Vahika (now in Punjab) mentioned in some Sanskrit-language Hindu texts such as the Mahabharata's Karna Parva, its descendant names, from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀚𑀝𑁆𑀝 (*jaṭṭa), were later used to refer to various different low-ranking groups of peoples living in the regions of Sindh and Punjab. Many other theories about the origin of this name exist, but are unproven and speculative; see Getae for one such example.

Words that rhyme with jat

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Questions about jat

What does jat mean?
Jat means a member of a people of northwestern India and Pakistan.
What is jat the alternative spelling of?
Jat is the alternative spelling of yat.
What part of speech is jat?
Jat is a noun.
What is the plural of jat?
The plural of jat is jats.

Words near jat in the dictionary

  1. Jastrząbka Młoda
  2. Jasus
  3. jasy
  4. jasz
  5. jaszczakite
  6. jat
  7. jataka
  8. jatakas
  9. jatamansi
  10. Jatayu
  11. Jate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jat (page history and authors); Jat (page history and authors); yat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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