sura

See also: Sura, súra, šura, şura, and -sura

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُورَة‎ (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”), from سَوَّرَ‎ (sawwara, “to enclose, to wall in”).

Noun

sura (plural suras or suwar)

  1. Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an.
    • 1985, Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qurʾan, Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press (2001), →ISBN, chapter 2: “Tajwīd”, page 25:
      Most of these essentially uninflected syllables (CV̄C) are names of the letters of the alphabet and introduce some of the suwar of the Qurʾanic text.

Translations

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic سُورَة‎ (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”), from سَوَّرَ‎ (sawwara, “to enclose, to wall in”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sura f (plural sures)

  1. (Islam) sura

Further reading

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: su‧ra

Verb

sura

  1. to tease

Danish

Etymology

From Arabic سُورَة‎ (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”), from سَوَّرَ‎ (sawwara, “to enclose, to wall in”).

Noun

sura c (singular definite suraen, plural indefinite suraer)

  1. (Islam) sura

Declension

References

Hausa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic سُورَة‎ (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”).

Noun

sūr̃ā̀ f (plural sūr̃ōr̃ī, possessed form sūr̃àr̃)

  1. (Islam) sura

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic صُورَة‎ (ṣūra).

Noun

sūr̃ā̀ f (plural sūr̃ōr̃ī, possessed form sūr̃àr̃)

  1. image, picture, form, appearance

Etymology 3

Verb

sū̀r̃ā (grade 3)

  1. swoop down to grab something

Irish

Noun

sura m (genitive singular sura)

  1. (textiles) surah (soft twilled silk)

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sura shura
after an, tsura		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin sūra.

Noun

sura f (plural sure)

  1. (anatomy) calf

Etymology 2

From Arabic سُورَة‎ (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”), from سَوَّرَ‎ (sawwara, “to enclose, to wall in”).

Noun

sura f (plural sure)

  1. (Islam) sura

Latin

Etymology

Possibly related to sū̆rus (“t-branch, stake”) or from a Proto-Indo-European root common to Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “part of a sacrificial victim”)[1].

Pronunciation

Noun

sūra f (genitive sūrae); first declension

  1. calf (of the leg)

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative sūra sūrae
genitive sūrae sūrārum
dative sūrae sūrīs
accusative sūram sūrās
ablative sūrā sūrīs
vocative sūra sūrae

References

  1. ↑ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “sura”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 634

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic صُورَة‎ (ṣūra)

Noun

sura f (plural sur)

  1. picture
  2. photograph
  3. image

Polish

Etymology

From Arabic سُورَة‎ (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”), from سَوَّرَ‎ (sawwara, “to enclose, to wall in”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈs̪ura/

Noun

sura f

  1. (Islam) sura

Declension

Romani

Etymology

Probably from Armenian սուր (sur, “sword”).

Noun

sura ? (plural sur)

  1. sword

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “սուր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press

Spanish

Noun

sura m (plural suras)

  1. sura

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic سُورَة‎ (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”), from سَوَّرَ‎ (sawwara, “to enclose, to wall in”).

Noun

sura (n class, plural sura)

  1. chapter
  2. sura (chapter of the Qur'an)

Swedish

Etymology 1

Derivation of adjective sur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʉːra/

Adjective

sura

  1. absolute singular definite and plural form of sur.

Verb

sura (present surar, preterite surade, supine surat, imperative sura)

  1. to sulk
    • 1920, August Strindberg, Efterslåtter
      Vad går du här ensam omkring och surar för? frågade honom en gammal apa, som satt för sig själv och knäckte nötter.
      "Why are you here alone sulking? he was asked by an old monkey, sitting by himself cracking nuts.
      "Most likely he was sulking because she had told him to be ashamed of himself."
    • 2000, Roger Borgelid, Svenska Dagbladet - Människan bakom miljonleendet
      Det var inte länge sedan [han] framstod som en arrogant diva med taskigt humör, en dålig förlorare som surade över en missad tiometersputt,...
      "It was not long ago that he was seen as an arrogant diva with a bad temper, a poor loser who would sulk if he missed a ten-meterputt, ..."
Usage notes

Past participle is basically non-existent on semantic/pragmatic reasons.

Conjugation

See also

  • försura

Etymology 2

From Arabic سُورَة‎ (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”), from سَوَّرَ‎ (sawwara, “to enclose, to wall in”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʉːra/

Noun

sura c

  1. sura (chapter of Qur'an)
    • 2004, Göteborgsposten - Nu skall den ene vara den andres fiende
      Koranens 21:a sura berättar att Abraham irriterades över sin pappas och dennes underlydandes avgudadyrkan:...
      "The 21st sura of the Qur'an relates that Abraham was irritated by the idolatry of his daddy and his employees:...
Declension
Declension of sura 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sura suran suror surorna
Genitive suras surans surors surornas

Uzbek

Etymology

From Arabic سُورَة‎ (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”), from سَوَّرَ‎ (sawwara, “to enclose, to wall in”).

Noun

Other scripts
Cyrillic сура‍
Roman sura‍
Perso-Arabic ‍‍

sura (plural suralar)

  1. (Islam) sura

Declension

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