jat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of a people of northwestern India and Pakistan.
noun
Alternative spelling of yat (“letter or vowel”).
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: जाट, जर्तिक, *𑀚𑀝𑁆𑀝
Inflected Forms
Jats (plural)
Jatt (alternative, Eastern Punjabi)
Jaat (alternative, Hindi)
Jutt (alternative, Urdu)
Jut (alternative, dated)