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Chahat
चाहतSay it CHAA-hut
- Meaning
- Desire, longing; love, affection, fondness (= cāh) Platts, p. 420
- Say it
- CHAA-hut
- Written
- चाहत
- Other spellings
- Chaahat
- First sound
- चा · Meen rashi
Chahat
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Chahat meaning
Chahat (चाहत) is a Hindu girl's name of Hindi origin. By its first sound, चा, it is a Meen rashi name (Revati nakshatra) in the North Indian table.
Desire, longing; love, affection, fondness (= cāh)
Chahat (चाहत) is an everyday Hindi and Urdu word for love and longing. Platts' dictionary gives cāhat as the same as cāh, whose senses run from "wish, desire" and "longing" to "love, affection, liking, fondness", and traces it to the verb cāhnā, "to want, to love". The word is a staple of Hindi film songs. Baby-name lists give the name as "love" or "affection", which matches. It is a modern name, used mostly for girls in North India by Hindu and Sikh families alike.
Source: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English (1884), p. 420 · entry cāhat · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
References: Platts, cāh, cāhat, p. 420
Fits your syllable
First sound चा
Revati nakshatra, pada 3 · Meen rashi
North Indian table. Tables vary by region and family tradition, so confirm with your priest.
Spellings
Chahat · Chaahat