عورت

عورت (form I)

1. عَوِرْتُ (ʕawirtu) /ʕa.wir.tu/: first-person singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)
2. عَوِرْتَ (ʕawirta) /ʕa.wir.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)
3. عَوِرْتِ (ʕawirti) /ʕa.wir.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)
4. عَوِرَتْ (ʕawirat) /ʕa.wi.rat/: third-person feminine singular past active of عَوِرَ (ʕawira)

عورت (form II)

1. عَوَّرْتُ (ʕawwartu) /ʕaw.war.tu/: first-person singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
2. عَوَّرْتَ (ʕawwarta) /ʕaw.war.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
3. عَوَّرْتِ (ʕawwarti) /ʕaw.war.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
4. عَوَّرَتْ (ʕawwarat) /ʕaw.wa.rat/: third-person feminine singular past active of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
5. عُوِّرْتُ (ʕuwwirtu) /ʕuw.wir.tu/: first-person singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
6. عُوِّرْتَ (ʕuwwirta) /ʕuw.wir.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
7. عُوِّرْتِ (ʕuwwirti) /ʕuw.wir.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)
8. عُوِّرَتْ (ʕuwwirat) /ʕuw.wi.rat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of عَوَّرَ (ʕawwara)

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).

عَورَت ('vrt) f (Devanagari औरत) (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

     nfr cakr band ġlam
     'vrt mrd hvr xaṣ v 'am

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     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)

• Kannauji: अउरत, औरत

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

Borrowed from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra).

عورت • (awrat / owrat) (Tajik spelling аврат)

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

   Synonyms: شرمگاه (šarmgāh / šarmgâh), زهار (zihār / zehâr)

2. (by extension, dated, unfashionable) 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 happened because it was considered immodest to expose the female body in public. First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi عَورَت ('vrt)/औरत (aurata).^[1]

• (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)

   • 2001, Kishwar Naheed, translated by Rekhta, Kulliyat Dusht-e-Qais Mein Laila‎^[1], page 972:

     یہ ہم گنہ گار عورتیں ہیں جو اہل جبہ کی تمکنت سے نہ رعب کھائیں نہ جان بیچیں نہ سر جھکائیں نہ ہاتھ جوڑیں

     ye ham gunahgār aurtẽ ha͠i jo ahl-e-jubbā kī tamaknat se na rob khāẽ na jān becẽ na sar jhukāẽ na hāth joṛẽ

     It is we sinful women who are not awed by the grandeur of those who wear gowns, who don't sell our lives, who don't bow our heads, who don't fold our hands together

2. wife

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

3. (Islam) pudendum

• “عورت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “عورت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]