Wraith in Hindi
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The meaning of “wraith” in Hindi is प्रेतात्मा, pronounced bhut — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
a mental representation of some haunting experience
Borrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 in a translation of the Aeneid.
The word has no certain etymology; it may be a transferred use of Middle Scots wraith, wrath (nominally "anger, rage", adjectivally "angry, wrathful"), thus connecting it to writhe and making it a doublet of wrath and wroth.
The old Century Dictionary compares Old Norse vǫrðr (“guardian”).
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The word has no certain etymology; it may be a transferred use of Middle Scots wraith, wrath (nominally "anger, rage", adjectivally "angry, wrathful"), thus connecting it to writhe and making it a doublet of wrath and wroth.
The old Century Dictionary compares Old Norse vǫrðr (“guardian”).
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