# صور
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Denominal verb from صُورَة (ṣūra, “form, image”).

#### Verb

صَوَّرَ • (ṣawwara) II (non-past يُصَوِّرُ (yuṣawwiru), verbal noun تَصْوِير (taṣwīr))
* to form, to create
* to paint, to draw
* to illustrate
* to depict
* to represent
* to photograph

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤu.war/, /sˤuːr/, /sˤi.war/

#### Noun

صُوَر or صُور or صِوَر • (ṣuwar or ṣūr or ṣiwar) f pl
* plural of صُورَة (ṣūra)

### Etymology 3

Seemingly a literary corruption of Hebrew שׁוֹפָּר (šōp̄ārā), hence doublet of شَبُّور (šabbūr).

#### Noun

صُور • (ṣūr) m (plural أَصْوَار (ʔaṣwār))
* horn (instrument used to signal others)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 39:68:وَنُفِخَ فِي الصُّورِ فَصَعِقَ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا مَنْ شَاءَ اللّٰهُ ثُمَّ نُفِخَ فِيهِ أُخْرَى فَإِذَا هُمْ قِيَامٌ يَنْظُرُونَwa-nufiḵa fī aṣ-ṣūri fa-ṣaʕiqa man fi s-samāwāti wa-man fi l-ʔarḍi ʔillā man šāʔa llāhu ṯumma nufiḵa fīhi ʔuḵrā fa-ʔiḏā hum qiyāmun yanẓurūnaAnd the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth swoon away, save him whom Allah willeth. Then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing waiting!

##### Declension
#### References

* ↑ Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 779

### Etymology 4

From Phoenician 𐤑𐤅𐤓 (ṣwr /⁠Ṣur⁠/, “rock”).

#### Proper noun

صُور • (ṣūr) f
* Tyre (a city in Lebanon)

##### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: صور (sur)
** Turkish: Sur

### Etymology 5

Borrowed from Aramaic צוּרָא (ṣūrā), variant of צַרְיָא (ṣaryā), צַארְא (ṣarā, “palm-band”), from Akkadian 𒍝𒊒𒌋 (ṣa-ru-ú /⁠ṣarû⁠/, “a part of the date-palm”).

#### Alternative forms

* صَوْرَة (ṣawra)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤawr/

#### Noun

صَوْر • (ṣawr) m (plural صِيرَان (ṣīrān)) (obsolete)
* small palm-tree
* what is plucked from the palm-tree sitting in the ground, the root of a palm-tree, a palm-trunk

##### Declension
#### References

* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 146
* Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1271a
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “صور”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1744
* Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 332
* Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy (a. 1229) Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, editor, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān]‎ (in Arabic), volume 3, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1868, page 432 l. 15
* “ṣry$^4$”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

### Etymology 6

Resultative to يَصُورُ (yaṣūru, “to bend towards a shape”).

#### Noun

صَوْر • (ṣawr) m (obsolete)
* bank of a river, riverside
* side of the neck
* forelock

##### Declension
## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤaw.war/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

صور • (ṣawwar) II (non-past يصور (yṣawwar))
* to photograph

#### Conjugation
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic صُور (ṣūr, “horn”), probably a corruption of Hebrew שׁוֹפָר (“shofar, horn”).

#### Noun

صور • (sur)
* horn, any of several wind instruments with one narrow end into which the musician blows
    Synonym: بوینوز (boynuz)
* (religion, Islam) the trumpet that will be blown on judgement day by the archangel Israfil

##### Descendants

* Turkish: sur

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sur4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4358
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “sûr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1155
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 771
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cornu”, 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 289
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3002
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic صُور (Ṣūr), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤅𐤓 (ṣwr /⁠Ṣur⁠/, “rock”).

#### Proper noun

صور • (sur)
* (historical) Tyre (an ancient city in Phoenicia, in present-day Lebanon)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: Sur

#### Further reading

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 771
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190
* Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Sur”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 701

## Persian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic صُور (ṣūr).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [suːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [suːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [suːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [suːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [suɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [suːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [suɾ]

#### Noun

صور • (sur)
* horn, large trumpet
    Synonym: شیپور (šeypur)
* (Islam) the horn blown by the archangel on judgment day

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic صُور (ṣūr).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [suːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [suːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [suːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [suːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [suɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [suːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [suɾ]

#### Proper noun

صور • (sur)
* Tyre (a city in Lebanon)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic صُوَر (ṣuwar).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [su.ˈwaɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sʊ.wǽɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sʊ.wǽɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sʊ.wǽɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [su.wǽɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [so.vǽɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [su.vǽɾ]

#### Noun

صور • (sovar)
* plural of صورت (surat)

### Further reading

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

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic صَوَّر (ṣawwar).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤaw.war/, [ˈsˤɑw.wɑrˤ]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

صوّر • (ṣawwar) II (present بصوّر (biṣawwer))
* to photograph, to take a picture
    ضلّت تصوّر حالها زيّ كإنّها بتشتغل معنا.ḍallat tṣawwer ḥālha zayy kaʔinnha btištaḡel maʕnaShe kept taking pictures of herself as though she were working with us.