Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.

Platform along side a river used for cremations

Large stairs bordering river shores, or near a temple sacred pond, to make an easier access to people. Ghats are daily used by pilgrims who come to carry out their ritual ablutions to purify themselves. But other people come too, for instance to wash their clothes in the river. Varanasi ghats are very famous. The word Ghat designates also the steep slopes between the Dekkan Plateau and the plain areas in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Maharashtra

Ghat (Arabic: غات) is a city in the municipality of Ghat in remote south-western Libya. In historical times, Ghat was a major terminal point on the Trans-Saharan trade route. It was a stronghold for the Kel Ajjer Tuareg federation until it was occupied the French, in 1915, after the famous Battle of Isayyan.

A pass through a mountain.

A range of mountains.

stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water

Station

a term in some Indian languages (e