Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA city, the capital of Herat province, Afghanistan, dating back to Avestan times. · A province of Afghanistan.
Borrowed from Classical Persian هَرَات (harāt), from Arabic هَرَاة (harāh), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hlyb' /harēw/), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎼𐎡𐎺 (h-r-i-v /haraiva/), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow, run”); see also Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬊𐬌𐬎𐬎𐬀 (haroiuua).
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