English Explanatory Dictionary

vrata

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pious observance such as fasting and pilgrimage.

Word forms

vrata vratas

Etymology

Transliteration of Sanskrit व्रत (vratá). Related to the group word, verb, and verve, from the same Proto-Indo-European root, *werh₁- (“to speak, say”).

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