صورت

Arabic

Verb

صورت (form II)

1. صَوَّرْتُ (ṣawwartu) /sˤaw.war.tu/: first-person singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
2. صَوَّرْتَ (ṣawwarta) /sˤaw.war.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
3. صَوَّرْتِ (ṣawwarti) /sˤaw.war.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
4. صَوَّرَتْ (ṣawwarat) /sˤaw.wa.rat/: third-person feminine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
5. صُوِّرْتُ (ṣuwwirtu) /sˤuw.wir.tu/: first-person singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
6. صُوِّرْتَ (ṣuwwirta) /sˤuw.wir.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
7. صُوِّرْتِ (ṣuwwirti) /sˤuw.wir.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
8. صُوِّرَتْ (ṣuwwirat) /sˤuw.wi.rat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra)bor.

Classical Persian صُورَت (sūrat)bor.

Ottoman Turkish صورت

Borrowed from Classical Persian صُورَت (sūrat), borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Noun

صورت • (surat, suret) (plural صور)

1. form, shape, figure

   Synonyms: رسم (resm, resim), شكل (şekl, şekil)

2. countenance, feature
3. picture, portrait, drawing
4. statue, idol
5. copy of a document
6. manner, sort, variety
7. method, way, process
8. grade, degree, extent
9. case, supposition

Derived terms

• صورتسز (suratsiz, “brazen-faced”)
• صورتلنمك (suretlenmek, “to take form”)
• صورتلو (suratlı, “having a form”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: suret

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “suret”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4359
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صورت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 771
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Forma”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 601
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صورت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3002
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “suret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صورت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian صُورَت (sūrat), borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Noun

صورت • (surát) m

1. form; shape

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [suː.ˈɾat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [suː.ɾǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [suː.ɾǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [suː.ɾǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [su.ɾǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [suː.ɹǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [su.ɾǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	sūrat
Dari reading?	sūrat
Iranian reading?	surat
Tajik reading?	surat

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	صورت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сурат

صورَت • (surat) (plural صورت‌ها (surat-hâ) or صور (sovar))

1. face

   Synonym: چهره (čehre)

   صورت قشنگ ― surat-e qešang ― pretty face

2. image, effigy
3. form, shape, figure, appearance

   به صورت فرشته ― be surat-e ferešte ― in the form of an angel; looking like an angel

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 322”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[5]:

     خیال نقش تو در کارگاه دیده کشیدم
     به صورت تو نگاری ندیدم و نشنیدم

     xayāl-i naqš-i tu dar kārgāh-i dīda kašīdam
     ba surat-i tu nigārē na-dīdam u na-šunīdam

     I have drawn a fantasy of your portrait in the atelier of my eyes;
     I have neither seen nor heard of a painting [as beautiful] as your form.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

4. (often with به) way; manner (of doing something)

   Synonym: طور (towr)

   به صورت مبهم می‌گویند. ― be surat-e mobham mi-guyand. ― They speak in vague terms.

5. (with در) case, eventuality

   در این صورت ― dar in surat ― this being the case

6. list, catalog, inventory

   Synonym: فهرست (fehrest)

   صورت غذا ― surat-e ğazâ ― menu (literally, “food list”)

7. (arithmetic) numerator

Derived terms

• در صورتی که (dar surati ke, “in the case that; whereas”)
• صورت حساب (surat-e hesâb, “bill, invoice”)
• صورت غذا (surat-e ğazâ, “menu”)
• صورت پذیرفتن (surat paziroftan, “to take place”)
• صورتی (surati)

 

Related terms

• تصور (tasavvor)
• تصویر (tasvir)

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: সুরত (surot)
• → Ottoman Turkish: صورت (suret)

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra)bor.

Classical Persian صُورَت (sūrat)bor.

Urdu صُورَت (sūrat)

Borrowed from Classical Persian صُورَت (sūrat), borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra). First attested in c. 1421 as Middle Hindi صورت (ṣvrt /⁠sūrat⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /suː.ɾət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: صُو‧رَت

Noun

صُورَت • (sūrat) f (Hindi spelling सूरत)

1. appearance
2. circumstance

Declension

Declension of صورت
	singular	plural
direct	صُورَت (sūrat)	صُورَتیں (sūratẽ)
oblique	صُورَت (sūrat)	صُورَتوں (sūratõ)
vocative	صُورَت (sūrat)	صُورَتو (sūrato)

Further reading

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