ghat

also ghaut G0111300 (gôt, gät)n. A broad flight of steps leading down to the bank of a river in India, used especially by bathers.

[Hindi ghāt, from Sanskrit ghaṭṭaḥ, probably of Dravidian origin; akin to Telugu kaṭṭu, gaṭṭu, dam, embankment.]

ghat

(ɡɔːt) (in India) n1. stairs or a passage leading down to a river2. (Physical Geography) a mountain pass or mountain range3. (Hinduism) a place of cremation[C17: from Hindi ghāt, from Sanskrit ghatta]

ghat

(gɔt, gɒt)

n. (in India) a wide set of steps descending to a river, esp. a river used for bathing. [1595–1605; < Hindi]

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Noun

ghat - stairway in India leading down to a landing on the waterstaircase, stairway - a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps

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(both: gät), walled town, SW Libya, in an oasis in the Sahara, near the Algerian border. It formerly was an important caravan center. Ghat was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1875, by the Italians in 1930, and by the French in 1943, during World War II.

Ghat

an oasis and city in southwestern Libya, Ubari District. Located near the border with the Algerian Sahara at the eastern base of the Tassili N’Ajjer Plateau. Population, approximately 8,000.

Ghat is an administrative and trade center and a junction of caravan routes from Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria to the central Sahara and Niger. Cereals, vegetables, and date palms are cultivated. Sheep and camels are raised. Handicrafts produced are rugs, leather products, baskets, and embossed metal objects. Soda is extracted in the vicinity of Ghat.

ghat

in India1. a mountain pass or mountain range 2. a place of cremation

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noun stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water

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