# عورت
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

عورت (form I)
* عَوِرْتُ (ʕawirtu) /ʕa.wir.tu/: first-person singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)
* عَوِرْتَ (ʕawirta) /ʕa.wir.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)
* عَوِرْتِ (ʕawirti) /ʕa.wir.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)
* عَوِرَتْ (ʕawirat) /ʕa.wi.rat/: third-person feminine singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

عورت (form II)
* عَوَّرْتُ (ʕawwartu) /ʕaw.war.tu/: first-person singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
* عَوَّرْتَ (ʕawwarta) /ʕaw.war.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
* عَوَّرْتِ (ʕawwarti) /ʕaw.war.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
* عَوَّرَتْ (ʕawwarat) /ʕaw.wa.rat/: third-person feminine singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
* عُوِّرْتُ (ʕuwwirtu) /ʕuw.wir.tu/: first-person singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
* عُوِّرْتَ (ʕuwwirta) /ʕuw.wir.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
* عُوِّرْتِ (ʕuwwirti) /ʕuw.wir.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
* عُوِّرَتْ (ʕuwwirat) /ʕuw.wi.rat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)

## Old Hindi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).

### Noun

عَورَت ('vrt) f (Devanagari औरत) (Middle Hindi)
* woman
** c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 280.6:जेती औरत मरदां सिरजे ए सब रूप तुम्हाराjetī aurat maradā̃ siraje e sab rūp tumhārāas many women [and] men were created these [are] all to your likeness
** 1503, نَو سَرْہَار (nau sarhār), 61 :نَفَر چاکَر بانْد غُلام عَورَت مَرْد ہور خاص و عامnfr cakr band ġlam 'vrt mrd hvr xaṣ v 'am These examples are from a period later than Middle Indo-Aryan.
* pudendum

#### Descendants

* Braj: औरत (aurat)
* Bundeli: औरत (aurat)
* Hindustani:
    Hindi: औरत (aurat)
    Urdu: عَورَت (‘aurat)
* Kannauji: अउरत, औरत

### Further reading

* “عورت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔaw.ˈɾat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäw.ɾǽt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäw.ɾǽt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔäw.ɾǽt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔäw.ɾǽt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔow.ɹǽt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔäw.ɾǽt̪]

### Noun

| Dari | عورت |
| Iranian Persian | عورت |
| Tajik | аврат |
عورت • ('owrat)
* (Islam) the pudenda or pudendum, the privy parts; nakedness
    Synonyms: شرمگاه, زهار
* (by extension) a woman; also, a wife
    Synonym: زن (zan)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: övrət
* → Bengali: অওরত (oōrot)
* → Garhwali: औरत (aurat)
* → Gujarati: ઓરત (orat)
* → Old Hindi:
    Devanagari script: औरत (aurata)
    Arabic script: عَورَت ('vrt)
*   * Braj: औरत (aurat)
*   * Bundeli: औरत (aurat)
*   * Hindustani:
       Hindi: औरत (aurat)
       Urdu: عَورَت (‘aurat)
*   * Kannauji: अउरत, औरत
* → Ottoman Turkish: عورت
** Turkish: avrat
* Punjabi: ਅਉਰਤ (aurat)
* → Sindhi: aurata
    Arabic script: عَوْرَتَ
    Devanagari script: औरत
    Khudabadi script: 𑊹𑋙𑋍
* → Uzbek: avrat

### References

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عورت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, “genitals; nudity”), where the shift to "woman" in early New Indo-Aryan happened because it was considered immodest to expose the female body in public. First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi عَورَت ('vrt)/औरत (aurata).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɔː.ɾət̪/
** (Terai) IPA: /oː.ɾət̪/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ət̪
* Hyphenation: عَو‧رَت

### Noun

عَورَت • ('aurat) f (formal plural عَورات ('aurāt), Hindi spelling औरत)
* woman
    Synonyms: زَن (zan), نار (nār)
    Antonyms: مَرْد (mard), آدْمی (ādmī)
** 2001, Kishwar Naheed, translated by Rekhta, Kulliyat Dusht-e-Qais Mein Laila‎, page 972:یہ ہم گنہ گار عورتیں ہیں جو اہل جبہ کی تمکنت سے نہ رعب کھائیں نہ جان بیچیں نہ سر جھکائیں نہ ہاتھ جوڑیںye ham gunahgār aurtẽ ha͠i jo ahl-e-jubbā kī tamaknat se na rob khāẽ na jān becẽ na sar jhukāẽ na hāth joṛẽIt is we sinful women who are not awed by the grandeur of those who wear gowns, who don't sell our lives, who don't bow our heads, who don't fold our hands together
* wife
    Synonyms: بِیوِی (bīvī), زَوجَہ (zauja), اَہْلِیَہ (ahliya), گَھر والی (ghar vālī)
* (Islam) pudendum

#### Declension

Declension of عورت :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | عَورَت ('aurat) | عَورَتیں ('auratẽ) |
| oblique | عَورَت ('aurat) | عَورَتوں ('auratõ) |
| vocative | عَورَت ('aurat) | عَورَتو ('aurato) |

#### Derived terms

* عَورَت ذَات ('aurat zāt)

### References

* ↑ “عورت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

### Further reading

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