سورہ

See also: سورة and سوره

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic سُورَة (sūra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /suː.ɾɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: سُو‧رَہ

Noun

سُورَہ • (sūra) m (Hindi spelling सूरा)

1. Alternative form of سورت (sūrat, “chapter of the Qur'an”)

Further reading

• “سورہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سورہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سوره”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.