# صورت
## Arabic
### Verb

صورت (form II)
* صَوَّرْتُ (ṣawwartu) /sˤaw.war.tu/: first-person singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
* صَوَّرْتَ (ṣawwarta) /sˤaw.war.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
* صَوَّرْتِ (ṣawwarti) /sˤaw.war.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
* صَوَّرَتْ (ṣawwarat) /sˤaw.wa.rat/: third-person feminine singular past active of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
* صُوِّرْتُ (ṣuwwirtu) /sˤuw.wir.tu/: first-person singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
* صُوِّرْتَ (ṣuwwirta) /sˤuw.wir.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
* صُوِّرْتِ (ṣuwwirti) /sˤuw.wir.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara)
* 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)
* form, shape, figure
    Synonyms: رسم (resm, resim), شكل (şekl, şekil)
* countenance, feature
* picture, portrait, drawing
* statue, idol
* copy of a document
* manner, sort, variety
* method, way, process
* grade, degree, extent
* 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, 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, 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, Vienna, column 3002
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “suret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صورت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190

## Pashto
### Etymology

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

### Noun

صورت • (surát) m
* form; shape

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [suː.ˈɾat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [suː.ɾǽt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [suː.ɾǽt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [suː.ɾǽt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [su.ɾǽt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [suː.ɹǽt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [su.ɾǽt̪]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

| Dari | صورت |
| Iranian Persian | صورت |
| Tajik | сурат |
صورَت • (surat) (plural صورت‌ها (surat-hâ) or صور (sovar))
* face
    Synonym: چهره (čehre)
    صورت قشنگ ― surat-e qešang ― pretty face
* image, effigy
* 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]‎:خیال نقش تو در کارگاه دیده کشیدم به صورت تو نگاری ندیدم و نشنیدمxayāl-i naqš-i tu dar kārgāh-i dīda kašīdam ba surat-i tu nigārē na-dīdam u na-šunīdamI 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)
* (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.
* (with در) case, eventuality
    در این صورت ― dar in surat ― this being the case
* list, catalog, inventory
    Synonym: فهرست (fehrest)
    صورت غذا ― surat-e ğazâ ― menu (literally, “food list”)
* (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 صُورَت (sūrat), borrowed from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra). First attested in c. 1421 as Middle Hindi صورت (ṣvrt /⁠sūrat⁠/).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

صُورَت • (sūrat) f (Hindi spelling सूरत)
* appearance
* circumstance

#### Declension

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

### References

* ↑ “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]