नार-रहट nār-rahaṭ

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This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919On this site
cch
śśh
ṣṣh
r̥r̥i

A few reading pointers:

  • ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
  • ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
  • A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

Hindi · n. · m.

Earlier definition

Definition

Nār or rahaṭ, noria or Persian wheel. It is a wheel with buckets attached around it. The wheel turns with the force of the current (noria, water wheel) or with the force of oxen (Persian wheel) and draws water from a current to bring it into a higher water conduit (used for 'agriculture). Each bucket fills when it is at the bottom, in the water, and has a short time to fill. Then gradually empties in a little less than half a turn into a water conduit. This represents soul energy that takes a short time to fill (a short time in the cycle) and takes a long time to empty (the entire rest of the cycle).

Usual translation

  1. waterwheel
  2. waterwheel with buckets of water being filled and emptied

Origin of the definition

नार ناعورة nār (arabe)

(maybe) The Persian wheel (or saqia, tablia, rehat, tympanum) is a lifting device for extracting water from a well using animal traction, a succession of containers filling at the bottom and emptying at the surface, often to supply a land irrigation network. Because it is not using the power of flowing water, the Persian wheel is different from a noria and any other type of water wheel.
(maybe) A noria (Arabic: ناعورة, nā‘ūra, lit. "growler") is a hydropowered scoop wheel used to lift water into a small aqueduct, either for the purpose of irrigation or to supply water to cities and villages.

रहट rahaṭ (hindi)

A wheel or machine for drawing water, the Persian wheel.
A wheel on a frame at the top of a well (for the bucket-rope to pass over).

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Created
Wednesday 3 January 2024
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Saturday 20 April 2024