ghât

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.

   “The abrupt escarpment of the western Ghats condenses so much of the moisture of the south-west monsoon”

2. isim A mountain range.

   “And farther south, in the interior of the Peninsula, in the elevated tract from 1200 to 2400 feet above the sea, between the Eastern and Western Ghats”

3. isim A mountain pass.
4. isim A steep ravine leading to the sea.
5. isim A burning-ghat.

   “On the steps of the Manikarnika ghat—the holiest of the city’s stepped riverbanks, upon which Hindu dead are cremated—the fires are already lit, and mourners assemble by the hundred to accompany their loved ones at the end.”

6. isim Alternative spelling of ghat.

   “The other moist zone extends along the western coast of the peninsula, its eastern limit nearly coinciding with the crests of the ghâts, and its width varying from 50 to 100 miles.”