سوغات

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Persian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Turkic comparanda?”)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sawğāt
Dari reading? sawğāt
Iranian reading? sowğât
Tajik reading? savġot
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Noun

سوغات • (sowğât) (plural سوغات‌ها (sowğât-hâ))

  1. gift from travel; souvenir
    Synonym: ره‌آورد (rah-âvard)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Gulf Arabic: صوغة (ṣōġa)
  • → Gujarati: સૌઘાત (saughāt)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: सौग़ात (sauġāt)
    Urdu: سوغات (sauġāt)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سوغات (sawğāt).

Pronunciation

Noun

سَوغات • (sauġāt) m pl (Hindi spelling सौग़ात)

  1. a rarity, souvenir, gift (brought back from travelling)
    Synonym: تحفہ (tuḥfa)
    • 1986, ابو سعید قریشی [Abbu Saeed Qureshi], فیضانِ فیض [Faizan-e-Faiz]‎, Karachi: مکتبۂ اسلوب [maktaba-e-usloob], page 36:
      اِس کے باوجُود اس کے نغمے سوغاتوں کی طرح سفر کرتے تھے۔
      is ke bāvajūd us ke naġme sauġātoṉ kī t̤arḥ safar karte the.
      Despite this, his melodies used to travel like souvenirs.

Declension

    Declension of سوغات
singular plural
direct سوغات (sauġāt) سوغات (sauġāt)
oblique سوغات (sauġāt) سوغاتوں (sauġātõ)
vocative سوغات (sauġāt) سوغاتو (sauġāto)

Further reading

  • “سوغات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “سوغات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سوغات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “سوغات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “سوغات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “سوغات”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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