صورت

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)

Borrowed from Classical Persian صُورَت (sūrat), borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

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

• Turkish: suret

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “suret”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4359
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صورت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 771
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Forma”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 601
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صورت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3002
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “suret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صورت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190

Borrowed from Classical Persian صُورَت (sūrat), borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

صورت • (surát) m

1. form; shape

Borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

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صورَت • (surat) (plural صورت‌ها (surat-hâ) or صور (sovar))

1. face

   Synonym: چهره (čehre)

   صورت قشنگ ― surat-e qešang ― pretty face

2. image, effigy
3. form, shape, figure, appearance

   به صورت فرشته ― be surat-e ferešte ― in 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 صورت ― dar in surat ― this being the case

6. list, catalog, inventory

   Synonym: فهرست (fehrest)

   صورت غذا ― surat-e ğazâ ― menu (literally, “food list”)

7. (arithmetic) numerator

• → Bengali: সুরত (surot)
• → Ottoman Turkish: صورت (suret)

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

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /suː.ɾət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪

صُورَت • (ṣūrat) f (Hindi spelling सूरत)

1. appearance
2. circumstance

• “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.