suret

Albanian

Alternative forms

• syret — Gheg

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish suret, from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Noun

suret

1. portrait
2. picture

Finnish

Verb

suret

1. second-person singular present indicative of surra

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.ʁɛ/

• Audio

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Adjective

suret (feminine surette, masculine plural surets, feminine plural surettes)

1. sour, acidic

Derived terms

• surette

 

Noun

suret m (plural surets)

1. wild apple tree

Derived terms

• suretière

 

Further reading

• “suret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صورت (suret), from Persian صورت (surat), from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra).

Noun

suret n (plural sureturi)

1. (obsolete) copy of a document

Declension

Declension of suret

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) suret	suretul	(niște) sureturi	sureturile
genitive/dative	(unui) suret	suretului	(unor) sureturi	sureturilor
vocative	suretule		sureturilor

References

• suret in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صورت (suret), from Arabic صُورَة (ṣūra). Doublet of surat.

Noun

suret (definite accusative sureti, plural suretler)

1. form, shape
2. method

Related terms

• sureta

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “suret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صورت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN