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 عَوْرَت ('awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).

عَورَت ('aurat) f (Middle Hindi)

1. woman
   • c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 280.6:

     जेती औरत मरदां सिरजे
     ए सब रूप तुम्हारा

     jetī aurat maradā̃ siraje
     e sab rūp tumhārā

     as 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 عام

     nafar cākar bānd ġulām
     'aurat mard hor xās o 'ām

     These examples are from a period later than Middle Indo-Aryan.
2. pudendum

• Braj: औरत (aurat)
• Bundeli: औरत (aurat)
• Hindustani:

  Hindi: औरत (aurat)

  Urdu: عَورَت (‘aurat)

  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਔਰਤ (aurat)
    • Shahmukhi script: عَورَت (ʻaurat)

• Kannauji: अउरत, औरत

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

Borrowed 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)

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

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

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

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• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: عَو‧رَت

عَورَت • ('aurat) f (formal plural عَورات ('aurāt), Hindi spelling औरत)

1. woman

   Synonyms: زَن (zan), نار (nār)

   Antonyms: مَرْد (mard), آدْمی (ādmī)

2. wife

   Synonyms: بِیوِی (bīvī), زَوجَہ (zauja), اَہْلِیَہ (ahliya), گَھر والی (ghar vālī)

3. (Islam) pudendum

• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਔਰਤ (aurat)
  • Shahmukhi script: عَورَت (ʻaurat)

• “عورت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “عورت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عورت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 440
• Platts, John T. (1884) “عورت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 766