صور
العربية
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صور¹
Where it comes from
Denominal verb from صُورَة (ṣūra, “form, image”).
verb صَوَّرَ · ṣawwara · يُصَوِّرُ · تَصْوِير · مُصَوِّر
- to form, to create
- to paint, to draw
- to illustrate
- to depict, to portray
- to represent
- to photograph, to film, to shoot
صور²
- /sˤu.war/
- /sˤuːr/
- /sˤi.war/
noun صُوَر · صُور · صِوَر · ṣuwar · ṣūr · ṣiwar
- plural of صُورَة (ṣūra)
صور³
Where it comes from
Seemingly a literary corruption of Hebrew שׁוֹפָּר (šōp̄ārā), hence doublet of شَبُّور (šabbūr).
noun صُور · ṣūr · أَصْوَار · الصُّور
- horn (instrument used to signal others) وَنُفِخَ فِي الصُّورِ فَصَعِقَ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا مَنْ شَاءَ اللّٰهُ ثُمَّ نُفِخَ فِيهِ أُخْرَى فَإِذَا هُمْ قِيَامٌ يَنْظُرُونَ
صور⁴
Where it comes from
Derived from Phoenician 𐤑𐤓 (ṣr /ṣūr/, “rock”).
proper noun صُور · ṣūr · -
- Tyre (a city in Lebanon)
صور⁵
- /sˤawr/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Aramaic צוּרָא (ṣūrā), variant of צַרְיָא (ṣaryā), צַארְא (ṣarā, “palm-band”), from Akkadian 𒍝𒊒𒌋 (ṣa-ru-ú /ṣarû/, “a part of the date-palm”).
noun صَوْر · ṣawr · صِيرَان · الصَّوْر
- small palm-tree
- what is plucked from the palm-tree sitting in the ground, the root of a palm-tree, a palm-trunk
صور⁶
Where it comes from
Resultative to يَصُورُ (yaṣūru, “to bend towards a shape”).
noun صَوْر · ṣawr · الصَّوْر · صَوْرٌ
- bank of a river, riverside
- side of the neck
- forelock
In English
- Tyre an ancient sea port and city state of Phoenicia
- death knell tolling of a bell announcing death
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