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Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish suret, from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).
Noun
suret
- portrait
- picture
Finnish
Verb
suret
- second-person singular present indicative of surra
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
suret (feminine surette, masculine plural surets, feminine plural surettes)
- sour, acidic
Derived terms
Noun
suret m (plural surets)
- wild apple tree
Derived terms
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صورت (suret), from Persian صورت (surat), from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).
Noun
suret n (plural sureturi)
- (obsolete) copy of a document
Declension
References
- suret in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish صورت (suret), from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra). Doublet of surat.
Noun
suret (definite accusative sureti, plural suretler)
- form, shape
- method
Related terms
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “suret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صورت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN