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

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

    Noun

    صورت • (surat, suret) (plural صور (suver))

    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

    Pashto

    Etymology

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

    Noun

    صورت • (surátm

    1. form; shape

    Persian

    Etymology

  • Borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? sūrat
    Dari reading? sūrat
    Iranian reading? surat
    Tajik reading? surat
    • Audio (Iran):(file)

    Noun

    Dari صورت
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik сурат

    صورَت • (surat) (plural صورت‌ها, or صور (sovar))

    1. face
      Synonym: چهره (čehre)
      صورت قشنگsurat-e qešangpretty face
    2. image, effigy
    3. form, shape, figure, appearance
      به صورت فرشتهbe surat-e fereštein 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 صورتdar in suratthis being the case
      در صورت تمایلdar surat-e tamâyolif desired
    6. list, catalog, inventory
      Synonym: فهرست (fehrest)
      صورت غذاsurat-e ġazâmenu (literally, “food list”)
    7. (arithmetic) numerator

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    Urdu

    Etymology

  • Borrowed from Classical Persian صُورَت (sūrat), borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra). First attested in c. 1421 as Middle Hindi صورت (ṣvrt /⁠sūrat⁠/).[1]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    صُورَت • (sūratf (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)

    References

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

    Further reading

    • صورت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “صورت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]