ستر

See also: سپر‎, سبز‎, and شتر‎

Arabic

Etymology

From س ت ر‎ (s-t-r). Compare Hebrew סֵתֶר‎ (“hiddenness; secrecy”).

Verb

سَتَرَ • (satara) I, non-past يَسْتُرُ‎‎ (yasturu)

  1. to cover, to hide, to screen; to veil
  2. to protect, to shield, to guard, to safeguard; to shelter
    Synonyms: صَانَ‎ (ṣāna), وَقَى‎ (waqā)
    1. to marry off (a girl or a young woman) (as in order to protect her from sin)

Conjugation

Verb

سَتَّرَ • (sattara) II, non-past يُسَتِّرُ‎‎ (yusattiru)

  1. to cover up, to hide, to screen; to enveil
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 15:449:
      ‏فَجَعَلَ ٱبْنُ ٱلزُّبَيْرِ أَعْمِدَةً فَسَتَّرَ عَلَيْهَا ٱلسُّتُور حَتَّى ٱرْتَفَعَ بِنَاؤُهُ‎
      fa-jaʿala bnu z-zubayri ʾaʿmidatan fa-sattara ʿalayhā s-sutūra ḥattā rtafaʿa bināʾuhū
      And Ibn Az-Zubayr made pillars and covered them with curtains to further the building’s erection.
  2. to protect, to shield, to guard, to safeguard; to shelter
    Synonym: وَقَّى‎ (waqqā)
    1. to marry off (a girl or a young woman) (as in order to protect her from sin)

Conjugation

Noun

سِتْر • (sitr) m (plural سُتُور‎ (sutūr) or أَسْتَار‎ (ʔastār) or سُتُر (sutur))

  1. a covering or barrier that shelters and protects or restricts
    ‏هَتَكَ اللهُ سِتْرَ الرَّجُلِ‎
    hataka llāhu sitra r-rajuli
    Allah exposed the man [and his deeds]. (literally "Allah tore the man's cover.")
    1. curtain, drape
      • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 15:449:
        ‏فَجَعَلَ ٱبْنُ ٱلزُّبَيْرِ أَعْمِدَةً فَسَتَّرَ عَلَيْهَا ٱلسُّتُورَ حَتَّى ٱرْتَفَعَ بِنَاؤُهُ‎
        fa-jaʿala bnu z-zubayri ʾaʿmidatan fa-sattara ʿalayhā s-sutūra ḥattā rtafaʿa bināʾuhū
        And Ibn Az-Zubayr made pillars and covered them up with curtains to further the building’s erection.
    2. (figurative) shame, scruple; compunction
      Synonym: حَيَاء‎ (ḥayāʔ)

Declension

Noun

سُتَر • (sutar) pl

  1. plural of سُتْرَة‎ (sutra)

Noun

سُتُر • (sutur) pl

  1. plural of سِتَار‎ (sitār)
  2. plural of سِتْر (sitr)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833), “ستر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 283
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “ستر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1304
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ستر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 551–552

Pashto

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *stHráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stHrás, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂rós. Cognates include Ossetian стыр (styr, “great”), Sanskrit स्थिर (sthira), and Old Norse stórr (“large”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stər/

Adjective

ستر • (stër)

  1. large, great, big

Declension

Urdu

Numeral

Urdu numbers (edit)
 ←  60  ←  69 ٧٠
70
71  → 80  →
7
    Cardinal: ستّر, ہفتاد‎
    Ordinal: ستّرواں‎

ستر • (sattar) (Hindi spelling सत्तर)

  1. seventy
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