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wat | jat |

As nouns the difference between wat and jat

is that wat is a Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia while jat is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As proper nouns the difference between wat and jat

is that wat is a medieval English given name, short for Walter while Jat is an Indo-European ethnic group of people native to Northern India and Pakistan (including large populations living in the EU, US, Canada, Australia and UK), that have attributes of an ethnic group, tribe and a people.

As a pronoun wat

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As an adverb wat

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a determiner wat

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

wat

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia.
  • There are two wats near this village.
    Angkor Wat
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  • * 1996 , James Bissett Pratt, The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage , page 194:
  • It would be a mistake, however, to emphasize the Hindu element in Cambodian Buddhism and Cambodian temples. At its greatest it is always a subordinate element and in most of the wats or temples it hardly appears at all,
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  • See also

    * chedi * pagoda * stupa *

    Etymology 2

    From Amharic.

    Noun

  • A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
  • Etymology 3

    Variation of what.

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (informal, Internet, text messaging)
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • (informal, Internet, text messaging)
  • Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • (informal, Internet, text messaging)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    jat

    English

    (Jat people)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An Indo-European ethnic group of people native to Northern India and Pakistan (including large populations living in the EU, US, Canada, Australia and UK) , that have attributes of an ethnic group, tribe and a people.[http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/jat.html]
  • A member of an Indo-European people living in the Punjab, northwestern India, and Pakistan.[http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/jat.html][http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=jat]
  • A Indo-Scythian descendant of the Scythian Massagetae and Getae tribes.Hewitt, J.F., The Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times in India, South-Western Asia and Southern Europe, Archibald Constable & Co., London, 1894, pp. 481-487.Latif, S.M., History of the Panjab, Reprinted by Progressive Books, Lahore, Pakistan, 1984, first published in 1891, pp. 56.Barstow, A.E., The Sikhs: An Ethnology, Reprinted by B.R. Publishing Corporation, Delhi, India, 1985, first published in 1928, pp. 105-135, 63, 155, 152, 145.
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