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{{Short description|Arabic honorific title translating as "presence, appearance"}}
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'''''Hazrat, {{lang|ar-Latn|Hadrat}}, {{lang|ar-Latn|Hadhrat}}''''', or '''''{{lang|ar-Latn|Hadrah}}''''' ({{langx|ar|حَضْرَة|ḥaḍra}}, [[Plural|pl.]] {{lang|ar|حَضْرَات}} ''ḥaḍrāt''; {{langx|fa|حضرت|translit=hazrat}};<ref>{{cite book|title=New Persian–English Dictionary|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/hayyim_query.py?qs=حضرت&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact}}</ref> {{langx|tr|hazret}}) is a common Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Iranian, Afghan, and honorific Arabic and Turkish title used to honour a person. It literally denotes and translates to "presence, appearance."
== Usage ==
Initially, the title was used for the prophets of the Islamic faith: the [[Prophets and messengers in Islam|twenty-five great Hadhrats]] include [[Muhammad]], [[Abraham in Islam |Abraham]], [[Noah in Islam |Noah]], [[Moses in Islam |Moses]], and [[Jesus in Islam |Jesus]]. It carries connotations of the [[charismatic]] and is comparable to traditional English honorifics addressing high officials, such as "[[Your Honour]]" (for judges), "[[Your Majesty]]" (for monarchs), or "[[Your Holiness]]" (for clerics). This word may sometimes also appear after the names of respected Muslim personalities, such as [[imams]], [[sheikhs]], and [[ulama]] e.g. Turkish {{lang|tr|Hazretleri}} ('his Hadrat') in Islamic culture. This is similar to the [[French honorifics]] {{lang|fr|Monsieur}} and {{lang|fr|Madame}}, and [[Japanese honorifics#Sama|Japanese honorific {{lang|ja-Latn|nocat=y|Sama}}]]. The term was also loaned by [[Ottoman Turkish language|Turkish]] into [[Albanian language|Albanian]] and [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]] as {{lang|tr|Hazreti}}. In [[Urdu]], the term is formally used to refer to a male in general, such as in the literary phrase {{transl|ur|ḵẖawātīn o ḥazrāt}} ({{lang|ur|{{nq|خواتین و حضرات}}}}, {{translation|'women and men'}}), while {{transl|ur|banda}} ({{lang|ur|{{nq|بندہ}}}}) is more common in informal contexts.
== References ==
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