صورت

Arabic

Verb

صَوَّرْتُ • (ṣawwartu) (form II)

1. first-person singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)

Verb

صُوِّرْتُ • (ṣuwwirtu) (form II)

1. first-person singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)

Verb

صَوَّرْتَ • (ṣawwarta) (form II)

1. second-person masculine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)

Verb

صُوِّرْتَ • (ṣuwwirta) (form II)

1. second-person masculine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)

Verb

صَوَّرْتِ • (ṣawwarti) (form II)

1. second-person feminine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)

Verb

صُوِّرْتِ • (ṣuwwirti) (form II)

1. second-person feminine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)

Verb

صَوَّرَتْ • (ṣawwarat) (form II)

1. third-person feminine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)

Verb

صُوِّرَتْ • (ṣuwwirat) (form II)

1. third-person feminine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian صورت (surat), itself 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

From Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Noun

صورت • (surát) m

1. form; shape

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Pronunciation

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• (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

Noun

Dari	صورت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сурат

صورَت • (surat) (plural صورت‌ها (surat-hâ))

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian صورت (sūrat), itself from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

صُورَت • (ṣūrat) f (Hindi spelling सूरत)

1. appearance
2. circumstance

Declension

Declension of صورت
	singular	plural
direct	صورت (ṣūrat)	صورتیں (ṣūratẽ)
oblique	صورت (ṣūrat)	صورتوں (ṣūratõ)
vocative	صورت (ṣūrat)	صورتو (ṣūrato)

References

• “صورت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “صورت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.