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Arabic
Etymology 1
Verb
عَوِرْتُ • (ʕawirtu ) (form I )
first-person singular past active of عَوِرَ ( ʕawira )
Verb
عَوِرْتَ • (ʕawirta ) (form I )
second-person masculine singular past active of عَوِرَ ( ʕawira )
Verb
عَوِرْتِ • (ʕawirti ) (form I )
second-person feminine singular past active of عَوِرَ ( ʕawira )
Verb
عَوِرَتْ • (ʕawirat ) (form I )
third-person feminine singular past active of عَوِرَ ( ʕawira )
Etymology 2
Verb
عَوَّرْتُ • (ʕawwartu ) (form II )
first-person singular past active of عَوَّرَ ( ʕawwara )
Verb
عُوِّرْتُ • (ʕuwwirtu ) (form II )
first-person singular past passive of عَوَّرَ ( ʕawwara )
Verb
عَوَّرْتَ • (ʕawwarta ) (form II )
second-person masculine singular past active of عَوَّرَ ( ʕawwara )
Verb
عُوِّرْتَ • (ʕuwwirta ) (form II )
second-person masculine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ ( ʕawwara )
Verb
عَوَّرْتِ • (ʕawwarti ) (form II )
second-person feminine singular past active of عَوَّرَ ( ʕawwara )
Verb
عُوِّرْتِ • (ʕuwwirti ) (form II )
second-person feminine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ ( ʕawwara )
Verb
عَوَّرَتْ • (ʕawwarat ) (form II )
third-person feminine singular past active of عَوَّرَ ( ʕawwara )
Verb
عُوِّرَتْ • (ʕuwwirat ) (form II )
third-person feminine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ ( ʕawwara )
Old Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت ( awrat ) , from Arabic عَوْرَة ( ʕawra ) .
Noun
عَورَت ('aurat ) f ( Middle Hindi )
woman
c. 1420,
Kabīr ,
Kabīr Vāṇī 280.6:
जेती औरत मरदां सिरजे ए सब रूप तुम्हारा jetī aurat maradā̃ siraje e sab rūp tumhārā as many women men were created these all to your likeness
1503 ,
نَو سَرْہَار ( nau sarhār ) ,
61 :
نَفَر چاکَر بانْد غُلامعَورَت مَرْد ہور خاص و عام nafar cākar bānd ġulām 'aurat mard hor xās o 'ām These examples are from a period later than Middle Indo-Aryan .
pudendum
Descendants
Braj: औरत ( aurat )
Bundeli: औरत ( aurat )
Hindustani:
Hindi: औरत ( aurat )
Urdu: عَورَت ( ‘aurat ) → Punjabi:Gurmukhi script: ਔਰਤ ( aurat ) Shahmukhi script: عَورَت ( ʻaurat )
Kannauji: अउरत , औरत
Further reading
“عورت ”, in اُردُو لُغَت ( urdū luġat ) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017 .
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عَوْرَة ( ʕawra ) .
Pronunciation
Readings
Classical reading?
awrat
Dari reading?
awrat
Iranian reading?
owrat
Tajik reading?
avrat
Noun
Dari
عورت
Iranian Persian
Tajik
аврат
عورت • ('owrat )
( Islam ) the pudenda or pudendum , the privy parts ; nakedness
Synonyms: شرمگاه , زهار
( by extension ) a woman ; also, a wife
Synonym: زن ( zan )
Descendants
→ Azerbaijani: övrət
→ Bengali: অওরত ( oōrot )
→ Garhwali: औरत ( aurat )
→ Gujarati: ઓરત ( orat )
→ Old Hindi:
Devanagari script: औरत ( aurata )
Arabic script: عَورَت ( 'aurat ) Braj: औरत ( aurat ) Bundeli: औरत ( aurat ) Hindustani:Hindi: औरत ( aurat ) Urdu: عَورَت ( ‘aurat ) → Punjabi:Gurmukhi script: ਔਰਤ ( aurat ) Shahmukhi script: عَورَت ( ʻaurat ) Kannauji: अउरत , औरत
→ Ottoman Turkish: عورت
Punjabi: ਅਉਰਤ ( aurat )
→ Sindhi: aurata
Arabic script: عَوْرَتَ
Devanagari script: औरत
Khudawadi script: 𑊹𑋙𑋍
→ Uzbek: avrat
References
Hayyim, Sulayman (1934 ) “عورت ”, in New Persian–English dictionary , Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت ( awrat ) , from Arabic عَوْرَة ( ʕawra , “ genitals; nudity ” ) , where the shift to "woman " in early New Indo-Aryan is because it is abominable to expose the female body in public. First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi عَورَت ( 'aurat ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
عَورَت • ('aurat ) f (formal plural عَورات ( 'aurāt ) , Hindi spelling औरत )
woman
Synonyms: زَن ( zan ) , نار ( nār )
Antonyms: مَرْد ( mard ) , آدْمی ( ādmī )
wife
Synonyms: بِیوِی ( bīvī ) , زَوجَہ ( zauja ) , اَہْلِیَہ ( ahliya ) , گَھر والی ( ghar vālī )
( Islam ) pudendum
Declension
Declension of عورت
singular
plural
direct
عَورَت ( 'aurat )
عَورَتیں ( 'auratẽ )
oblique
عَورَت ( 'aurat )
عَورَتوں ( 'auratõ )
vocative
عَورَت ( 'aurat )
عَورَتو ( 'aurato )
Descendants
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਔਰਤ ( aurat )
Shahmukhi script: عَورَت ( ʻaurat )
Further reading
“عورت ”, in اُردُو لُغَت ( urdū luġat ) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017 .
“عورت ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت ( rexta luġat ) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024 .
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971 ) “عورت ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary , Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 440
Platts, John T. (1884 ) “عورت ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English , London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 766