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Aurat is a word which means "woman" in many Asian languages including Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Punjabi, and Sorani Kurdish.^[1]^[2]^[3] It occurs in Azerbaijani as "arvad" and Ottoman Turkish as "avret".^[4]

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