Barat

Barat may refer to:

People

Given name

• Barat Ali Batoor (born 1983), Afghani photographer
• Barat Shakinskaya (1914–1999), Azerbaijani and Soviet stage and film actress

Surname

• Anne-Marie Barat (1948–1990), French classical organist
• Carl Barât (born 1978), English musician, actor and author
• František Barát (born 1950), Czech footballer
• Kahar Barat (born 1950), Uyghur-American historian
• Leonid Barats, Russian actor, screenwriter and film producer
• Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779 – 1865), French Catholic saint
• Nicolas Barat (?–1706) French Catholic scholar of Hebrew works

Places

• Barat, NWFP, Pakistan, a town
• Barát, the Hungarian name for Baraţi, a village in Romania
• Barat (Kanfanar), a village in Croatia
• Barat, Višnjan, a village in Croatia

Schools

• Barat Academy in Chesterfield, Missouri, USA
• Barat College, former college in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
• Groupe scolaire Sophie-Barat in Châtenay-Malabry, France
• Sophie-Barat-Schule in Hamburg, Germany

Other uses

• Shab-e-barat is a Muslim holiday celebrated on the 14th night of the month of Sha'aban
• Lailatul Barat or Mid-Sha'ban, a Muslim holiday
• Baalat, 'Lady of Byblos', was the goddess of the city of Byblos, Phoenicia in ancient times.
• Baraat, a wedding procession in parts of south Asia
• Barat (wind)
• Barat (film), a 1942 Bollywood film
• West direction in Malay languages, both Indonesian and Bahasa Malaysia

See also

• Bharat (disambiguation)
• Barad (name)
• Borat, a 2006 Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary
  • Borat Sagdiyev, central character in the mockumentary