سور

Argued to be a loan from Aramaic שׂוּרָא / ܫܘܪܐ (šūrā), but other cognates such as Sabaean 𐩣𐩬𐩪𐩥𐩧𐩩 (mns¹wrt, “walls”) and Tigre ሶር (sor, “partition wall”) (unless that form is itself borrowed from Arabic) suggest that it may in fact be inherited.

سُور • (sūr) m (plural أَسْوَار (ʔaswār) or سِيرَان (sīrān))

1. wall that encloses and protects a building

   سُورُ ٱلصِّينِ ٱلْعَظِيمُ

   sūru ṣ-ṣīni l-ʕaẓīmu

   Great Wall of China

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 237
• Kogan, Leonid (2015) Genealogical Classification of Semitic. The Lexical Isoglosses, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 397
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سور”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

سَوَّرَ • (sawwara) II (non-past يُسَوِّرُ (yusawwiru), verbal noun تَسْوِير (taswīr))

1. to enclose with a wall or fences

سُوَر • (suwar) f pl

1. plural of سُورَة (sūra)

Borrowed from Arabic سُور (sūr, “wall”), argued to be a loan from Aramaic שׂוּרָא (šūrā, “wall, fortification”).

سور • (sur) (definite accusative سوری (surı), plural اسوار (esvar) or سیران (sirân))

1. wall, any structure built with stones, earth etc. built for defensive pruposes, surrounding a place

   Synonym: دیوار (duvar)

• Turkish: sur

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sur2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4358
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “sûr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1155
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 697
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Murus”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 1106
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 2702
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1088

Borrowed from Persian سور (sur, “nuptials”), from Old Persian *θūryas (“banquet, feast”).

سور • (sur)

1. wedding, nuptials, the ceremony that marks the beginning of a marriage

   Synonyms: دوگون (düğün), عرس (ʼurs)

• Turkish: sur

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sur3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4358
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “sûr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[7] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1155
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[8] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 697
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nuptiæ”, 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^[9], Vienna, column 1162
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[10], Vienna, column 2702
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[11], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1088

From Proto-Iranian *cuxráh.

• IPA^(key): /sur/

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سور • (sur)

1. red

From Old Persian *θūryas (“banquet, feast”), from Proto-Iranian *cuHryás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćuHryás, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewH- (“to shine”), see also Sanskrit श्वस् (śvas, “tomorrow”).^[1][2] Related to Northern Kurdish sor (“red”).

سور • (sur)

1. nuptials
2. banquet, feast, entertainment

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سور”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /suːɾ/, [suːɾᵊ]

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• Rhymes: -uːɾ

Inherited from Prakrit सूअर (sūara), from Sanskrit सूकर (sūkara). Compare Urdu سؤر (sū'ar).

سُوْر • (sūr) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸੂਰ)

1. pig, swine

   Synonym: خَنْزِیر (xanzīr)

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سُوْر • (sūr)

1. brave, valiant, intrepid

   Synonyms: بَہادَر (bahādar), دَلیر (daler)

• سُور بِیر (sūr bīr)

• سُورما (sūrmā)

From Sanskrit सूर (sūra). Related to سُورَج (sūraj).

سُوْر • (sūr) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸੂਰ)

1. (informal, poetic, rare) alternative form of سُورَج (sūraj, “the Sun”)

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sūkará”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 780
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “سُور”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਸੂਰ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

From Sanskrit सूर्य (sūrya).

• IPA^(key): [sʊr]

سوُر (sor)

1. sun

• Abd-El-Malek Lamuwal, Adam Baker (2013) “Southeastern Pashayi”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 43, Cambridge: International Phonetic Association, pages 243-246
• Richard F. Strand (2011) Degânʹo Lexicon‎^[12]

سور (sōr)

1. rider