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ẕāt (fem. of ẕū, q.v.), s.f. Possessor, owner, mistress (in these senses used as a prefixed noun; and often better rendered 'having, possessed of, endowed with'); essence, substance, nature, radical constituent; soul; body, person, self (i.e. a man's self, or a thing's self); generation, breed, tribe, caste; genus, species; sort, kind (in these senses, prob. connected, through the Persian, with the S. जाित; H. jāt; which the Hindūstānīs commonly corrupt into ẕāt); (in Gram.) a real substantive, a substantive (=ism-ě-ẕāt, as opp. to ism-ě-ma`nī, and to ṣifat):—ẕātu`l-jamb, s.m. The pleurisy:—ẕātu`r-riya, s.m.(?) Inflammation of the lungs, pneumonia, peripneumony:—ẕātu`ṣ-ṣadr, s.m. Inflammation in the chest; pleurisy; a collecting of matter in the chest:—ẕātu`l-`amūd, Being at a perpendicular:—ẕāt jānā(=jāt jānā), To lose caste, become an outcast:—ẕāt denā(apnī), To give up (one's own) caste, or to relinquish the benefits of (one's) religion, by eating, etc. with a person of another caste;—to give caste (to, -ko), to receive (one) as a member of a caste or sect (=jāt denā):—ẕāt-se girā-hu`ā, adj. & s.m. Out of caste;—an outcast:—ẕāt-se nikālnāor nikāl-denā, v.t. To put out of caste (see jāt):—ẕāt-ě-sharīf, s.m.f. An excellent mind or soul; a noble personage; (ironic.) a consummate knave:—ẕāt lenā, ẕāt mārnā(-kisī-kī), To deprive of caste (by touching the food, etc. etc. of another):—ẕāt-nām, s.m. (Gram.) A generic noun, a common noun:—ism-ě-ẕāt, s.m. (Gram.) A substantive:—ba ẕātě-ḵẖẉud, ba-ẓāt-ě-ḵẖāṣ, adv.=bi-ẕāti-hi, q.v.
Origin: Arabic