صورت

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Arabic

Verb

صورت (form II)

  1. صَوَّرْتُ (ṣawwartu) /sˤaw.war.tu/: first-person singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
  2. صَوَّرْتَ (ṣawwarta) /sˤaw.war.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
  3. صَوَّرْتِ (ṣawwarti) /sˤaw.war.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
  4. صَوَّرَتْ (ṣawwarat) /sˤaw.wa.rat/: third-person feminine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
  5. صُوِّرْتُ (ṣuwwirtu) /sˤuw.wir.tu/: first-person singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
  6. صُوِّرْتَ (ṣuwwirta) /sˤuw.wir.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
  7. صُوِّرْتِ (ṣuwwirti) /sˤuw.wir.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
  8. صُوِّرَتْ (ṣuwwirat) /sˤuw.wi.rat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian صورت (surat), itself from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Noun

صورت (surat, suret) (plural صور)

  1. form, shape, figure
    Synonyms: رسم (resm, resim), شكل (şekl, şekil)
  2. countenance, feature
  3. picture, portrait, drawing
  4. statue, idol
  5. copy of a document
  6. manner, sort, variety
  7. method, way, process
  8. grade, degree, extent
  9. case, supposition

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: suret

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

From Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Noun

صورت (surátm

  1. form; shape

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sūrat
Dari reading? sūrat
Iranian reading? surat
Tajik reading? surat
  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Noun

Dari صورت
Iranian Persian
Tajik сурат

صورَت (surat) (plural صورت‌ها (surat-hâ))

  1. face
    Synonym: چهره (čehre)
    صورت قشنگsurat-e qešangpretty face
  2. image, effigy
  3. form, shape, figure, appearance
    به صورت فرشتهbe surat-e fereštein the form of an angel; looking like an angel
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 322”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
      خیال نقش تو در کارگاه دیده کشیدم
      به صورت تو نگاری ندیدم و نشنیدم
      xayāl-i naqš-i tu dar kārgāh-i dīda kašīdam
      ba surat-i tu nigārē na-dīdam u na-šunīdam
      I have drawn a fantasy of your portrait in the atelier of my eyes;
      I have neither seen nor heard of a painting as your form.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  4. (often with به) way; manner (of doing something)
    Synonym: طور (towr)
    به صورت مبهم می‌گویند.be surat-e mobham mi-guyand.They speak in vague terms.
  5. (with در) case, eventuality
    در این صورتdar in suratthis being the case
  6. list, catalog, inventory
    Synonym: فهرست (fehrest)
    صورت غذاsurat-e ğazâmenu (literally, “food list”)
  7. (arithmetic) numerator

Derived terms

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian صورت (sūrat), itself from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Pronunciation

Noun

صُورَت (ṣūratf (Hindi spelling सूरत)

  1. appearance
  2. circumstance

Declension

Declension of صورت
singular plural
direct صورت (ṣūrat) صورتیں (ṣūratẽ)
oblique صورت (ṣūrat) صورتوں (ṣūratõ)
vocative صورت (ṣūrat) صورتو (ṣūrato)

References

  • صورت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • صورت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.