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noun
A pious observance such as fasting and pilgrimage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hinduism, Jainism
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History
Transliteration of Sanskrit व्रत (vratá). Related to the group word, verb, and verve, from the same Proto-Indo-European root, *werh1- (“to speak, say”).
