عورت

عَوِرْتُ • (ʕawirtu) (form I)

1. first-person singular past active of عَوِرَ‎ (ʕawira)

عَوِرْتَ • (ʕawirta) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular past active of عَوِرَ‎ (ʕawira)

عَوِرْتِ • (ʕawirti) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular past active of عَوِرَ‎ (ʕawira)

عَوِرَتْ • (ʕawirat) (form I)

1. third-person feminine singular past active of عَوِرَ‎ (ʕawira)

عَوَّرْتُ • (ʕawwartu) (form II)

1. first-person singular past active of عَوَّرَ‎ (ʕawwara)

عُوِّرْتُ • (ʕuwwirtu) (form II)

1. first-person singular past passive of عَوَّرَ‎ (ʕawwara)

عَوَّرْتَ • (ʕawwarta) (form II)

1. second-person masculine singular past active of عَوَّرَ‎ (ʕawwara)

عُوِّرْتَ • (ʕuwwirta) (form II)

1. second-person masculine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ‎ (ʕawwara)

عَوَّرْتِ • (ʕawwarti) (form II)

1. second-person feminine singular past active of عَوَّرَ‎ (ʕawwara)

عُوِّرْتِ • (ʕuwwirti) (form II)

1. second-person feminine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ‎ (ʕawwara)

عَوَّرَتْ • (ʕawwarat) (form II)

1. third-person feminine singular past active of عَوَّرَ‎ (ʕawwara)

عُوِّرَتْ • (ʕuwwirat) (form II)

1. third-person feminine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ‎ (ʕawwara)

Borrowed from Classical Persian عورت‎ ('aurat), from Arabic عَوْرَة‎ (ʕawra).

عورت (‘aurat) f

1. woman
   • 1503, نوسرہار – nau sarhār, 61 :

     نفر چاکر باند غلام
     عورت مرد ہور خاص و عام

2. genital

• Hindustani:

  Hindi: औरत (aurat)

  Urdu: عَورَت‎ (‘aurat)

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

From Arabic عَوْرَة‎ (ʕawra).

عورت • ('owrat)

1. (Islam) the pudenda or pudendum, the privy parts; nakedness

   Synonyms: شرمگاه‎, زهار‎

2. (by extension) a woman; also, a wife

   Synonym: زن‎ (zan)

• → Azerbaijani: övrət
• → Bengali: অওরত (oōrot)
• → Gujarati: ઓરત (orat)
• → Old Hindi: औरत (aurata), عورت (‘aurat)
  • Hindustani: aurat

    Hindi: औरत

    Urdu: عَورَت‎

  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: औरत (aurat)

    Urdu: عَورَت‎ (‘aurat)

• → Ottoman Turkish: عورت‎
  • Turkish: avrat
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਔਰਤ (aurat)

  Shahmukhi script: عَورَت‎ (‘aurat)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: عَوْرَتَ‎

  Devanagari script: औरत

• → Uzbek: avrat

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian عورت‎ ('aorat), from Arabic عَوْرَة‎ (ʕawra, “genitals; nudity”), where the shift to “woman” is due to the doctrine of some Islamic schools that the whole female body is a form of “nudity” that must be covered in public. First attested as Old Hindi عورت (‘aurat).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɔː.ɾət̪/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /ɔː.ɾət̪/

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• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: عَو‧رَت

عَورَت • (‘aurat) f (Hindi spelling औरत)

1. woman

   Synonyms: زَن‎ (zan), نار‎ (nār)

   Antonyms: مَرْد‎ (mard), آدْمی‎ (ādmī)

2. wife

   Synonyms: بیوی‎ (bīvī), زوجہ‎ (zauja), اہلیہ‎ (ahliya), گھر والی‎ (ghar vālī)

3. (rare or obsolete) genital

• “عورت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “عورت”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “عورت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “عورت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.