عورت

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Verb

عورت (form I)

  1. عَوِرْتُ (ʕawirtu) /ʕa.wir.tu/: first-person singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)
  2. عَوِرْتَ (ʕawirta) /ʕa.wir.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)
  3. عَوِرْتِ (ʕawirti) /ʕa.wir.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)
  4. عَوِرَتْ (ʕawirat) /ʕa.wi.rat/: third-person feminine singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)

Etymology 2

Verb

عورت (form II)

  1. عَوَّرْتُ (ʕawwartu) /ʕaw.war.tu/: first-person singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
  2. عَوَّرْتَ (ʕawwarta) /ʕaw.war.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
  3. عَوَّرْتِ (ʕawwarti) /ʕaw.war.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
  4. عَوَّرَتْ (ʕawwarat) /ʕaw.wa.rat/: third-person feminine singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
  5. عُوِّرْتُ (ʕuwwirtu) /ʕuw.wir.tu/: first-person singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
  6. عُوِّرْتَ (ʕuwwirta) /ʕuw.wir.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
  7. عُوِّرْتِ (ʕuwwirti) /ʕuw.wir.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
  8. عُوِّرَتْ (ʕuwwirat) /ʕuw.wi.rat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)

Old Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).

Noun

عَورَت ('vrtf (Devanagari औरत) (Middle Hindi)

  1. 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 غُلام
      عَورَت مَرْد ہور خاص و عام
      nfr cakr band ġlam
      'vrt mrd hvr xaṣ v 'am
      These examples are from a period later than Middle Indo-Aryan.
  2. pudendum

Descendants

Further reading

  • عورت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Persian

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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)

  1. (Islam) the pudenda or pudendum, the privy parts; nakedness
    Synonyms: شرمگاه, زهار
  2. (by extension) a woman; also, a wife
    Synonym: زن (zan)

Descendants

References

Urdu

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Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, genitals; nudity), where the shift to "woman" in early New Indo-Aryan happened because it is abominable to expose the female body in public (because of lust, male attention, sex, etc) hence hijabs and other forms of modesty. First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi عَورَت ('vrt)/औरत (aurata).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

عَورَت ('auratf (formal plural عَورات ('aurāt), Hindi spelling औरत)

  1. woman
    Synonyms: زَن (zan), نار (nār)
    Antonyms: مَرْد (mard), آدْمی (ādmī)
    • 2001, Kishwar Naheed, translated by Rekhta, Kulliyat Dusht-e-Qais Mein Laila, page 972:
      یہ ہم گنہ گار عورتیں ہیں جو اہل جبہ کی تمکنت سے نہ رعب کھائیں نہ جان بیچیں نہ سر جھکائیں نہ ہاتھ جوڑیں
      ye ham gunahgār aurtẽ ha͠i jo ahl-e-jubbā kī tamaknat se na rob khāẽ na jān becẽ na sar jhukāẽ na hāth joṛẽ
      It is we sinful women who are not awed by the grandeur of those who wear gowns, who don't sell our lives, who don't bow our heads, who don't fold our hands together
  2. wife
    Synonyms: بِیوِی (bīvī), زَوجَہ (zauja), اَہْلِیَہ (ahliya), گَھر والی (ghar vālī)
  3. (Islam) pudendum

Declension

    Declension of عورت
singular plural
direct عَورَت ('aurat) عَورَتیں ('auratẽ)
oblique عَورَت ('aurat) عَورَتوں ('auratõ)
vocative عَورَت ('aurat) عَورَتو ('aurato)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ عورت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

  • عورت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “عورت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]