سوغات

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Turkic comparanda?”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [saw.ˈɣɑːt]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säw.ɣɑ́ːt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säw.ɣɑ́ːt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säw.ɣɑ́ːt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säw.ɣɔ́ːt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sow.ɢɒ́ːt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säw.ʁɔ́t̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	sawğāt
Dari reading?	sawğāt
Iranian reading?	sowğât
Tajik reading?	savġot

Noun

سوغات • (sowğât) (plural سوغات‌ها (sowğât-hâ))

1. gift from travel; souvenir

   Synonym: ره‌آورد (rah-âvard)

Derived terms

• سوغاتی (sowğâti)

Descendants

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

  Hindi: सौग़ात (sauġāt)

  Urdu: سوغات (sauġāt)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سوغات (sawğāt).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪
• Hyphenation: سَو‧غات

Noun

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.

Declension

Declension of سوغات
	singular	plural
direct	سوغات (sauġāt)	سوغات (sauġāt)
oblique	سوغات (sauġāt)	سوغاتوں (sauġātō̃)
vocative	سوغات (sauġāt)	سوغاتو (sauġātō)

Further reading

• “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, 2024.
• 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