vrata
noun
vrata is a noun meaning “A pious observance such as fasting and pilgrimage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-R-A-T-A, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vrata is vratas.
What does vrata mean?
noun
- 1
A pious observance such as fasting and pilgrimage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vrata
- vratas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vrata?
Vrata appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vrata come from?
Transliteration of Sanskrit व्रत (vratá). Related to the group word, verb, and verve, from the same Proto-Indo-European root, *werh₁- (“to speak, say”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).