سوغات

Persian

Etymology

Derived from Turkic or Mongolic; Although it is referred to as a Khwarezmian term in the Indian edition of Burhan-i Qati.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /saw.ˈɣaːt/

 

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

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

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

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

Readings
Classical reading?	sawġāt
Dari reading?	sawġāt
Iranian reading?	sowġât
Tajik reading?	savġot

Noun

سوغات • (sawġāt / sowġât) (plural سوغات‌ها (sawġāt-hā / sowġât-hâ), Tajik spelling савғот)

1. gift from travel; souvenir

   Synonym: ره‌آورد (rah-âvard)

Derived terms

• سوغاتی (sawġātī / sowġâti)

Descendants

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

  Hindi: सौग़ात (sauġāt), सौगात (saugāt) — nuqtaless

  Urdu: سوغات (sauġāt)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سوغات (sawġāt).

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 (sauġātõ)
vocative	سوغات (sauġāt)	سوغاتو (sauġāto)

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, 2026.
• 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.
• Fallon, S. W. (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