عورت
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Etymology 1 edit
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- first-person singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)
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Etymology 2 edit
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عَوَّرْتُ • (ʕawwartu) (form II)
- first-person singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
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عُوِّرْتُ • (ʕuwwirtu) (form II)
- first-person singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
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عَوَّرْتَ • (ʕawwarta) (form II)
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عُوِّرْتَ • (ʕuwwirta) (form II)
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عَوَّرْتِ • (ʕawwarti) (form II)
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عُوِّرْتِ • (ʕuwwirti) (form II)
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عَوَّرَتْ • (ʕawwarat) (form II)
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Old Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت ('awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).
Noun edit
عَورَت ('aurat) f (Middle Hindi)
- woman
- 1503, نَو سَرْہَار (nau sarhār), 61 :These examples are from a period later than Middle Indo-Aryan.
- نَفَر چاکَر بانْد غُلام
عَورَت مَرْد ہور خاص و عام- nafar cākar bānd ġulām
'aurat mard hor xās o 'ām
- nafar cākar bānd ġulām
- نَفَر چاکَر بانْد غُلام
- pudendum
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “عورت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Persian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).
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- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔaw.ˈɾat]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔow.ɹǽt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäw.ɾǽt̪]
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Classical reading? | awrat |
Dari reading? | awrat |
Iranian reading? | owrat |
Tajik reading? | avrat |
Noun edit
Dari | عورت |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | аврат |
عورت • ('owrat)
- (Islam) the pudenda or pudendum, the privy parts; nakedness
- (by extension) a woman; also, a wife
- Synonym: زن (zan)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عورت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت ('awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, “genitals; nudity”), where the shift to "woman" in early New Indo-Aryan is because it is abominable to expose the female body in public. First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi عَورَت ('aurat).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɔː.ɾət̪/
Audio (PK) (file) - Rhymes: -ət̪
- Hyphenation: عَو‧رَت
Noun edit
عَورَت • ('aurat) f (formal plural عَورات ('aurāt), Hindi spelling औरत)
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Declension of عورت | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | عَورَت ('aurat) | عَورَتیں ('auratẽ) |
oblique | عَورَت ('aurat) | عَورَتوں ('auratõ) |
vocative | عَورَت ('aurat) | عَورَتو ('aurato) |
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “عورت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “عورت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عورت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 440
- Platts, John T. (1884) “عورت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 766