سوغات

Derived from Turkic or Mongolic; Although it is referred to as a Khwarezmian term in the Indian edition of Burhan-i Qati.^[1]

سوغات • (sawġāt / sowġât) (plural سوغات‌ها (sawġāt-hā / sowġât-hâ), Tajik spelling савғот)

1. gift from travel; souvenir

   Synonym: ره‌آورد (rah-âvard)

• سوغاتی (sawġātī / sowġâti)

• → Gulf Arabic: صوغة (ṣōġa)
• → Gujarati: સૌઘાત (saughāt)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: सौग़ात (sauġāt)

  Urdu: سوغات (sauġāt)

Borrowed from Classical Persian سوغات (sawġāt).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sɔː.ɣɑːt̪/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪
• Hyphenation: سَو‧غات

سَوغات • (sauġāt) m pl (Hindi spelling सौग़ात)

1. a rarity, souvenir, gift (brought back from travelling)

   Synonym: تحفہ (tuḥfa)

   • 1986, ابو سعید قریشی [Abbu Saeed Qureshi], فیضانِ فیض [Faizan-e-Faiz]‎^[1], Karachi: مکتبۂ اسلوب [maktaba-e-usloob], page 36:

     اِس کے باوجُود اس کے نغمے سوغاتوں کی طرح سفر کرتے تھے۔

     is ke bāvajūd us ke naġme sauġātoṉ kī t̤arḥ safar karte the.

     Despite this, his melodies used to travel like souvenirs.

• “سوغات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سوغات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سوغات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سوغات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “سوغات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “سوغات”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC