noun (in India)
- a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- a mountain pass.
- a mountain range or escarpment.
noun
- Caribbean a small cleft in a hill through which a rivulet runs down to the sea
noun (in India)
- stairs or a passage leading down to a river
- a mountain pass or mountain range
- a place of cremation
also ghaut, from Hindi, “pass, mountain,” from Sanskrit ghattah “landing place,” of unknown origin.