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surat

/ˈsʊˌɹət/

surat is the alternative form of sura.

Meaning of sura

Noun (1)

sura (plural suras or suwar)

  1. Any of the 114 chapters of the Quran.
    • 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.1985, Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qurʾan, Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press (2001), chapter 2: “Tajwīd”, page 25

Noun (2)

sura (uncountable)

  1. The sap of the palmyra or of the coconut palm, palm wine.

See all 3 meanings of sura

Proper noun capitalized: Surat

Surat

  1. A large city in Gujarat, India.
  2. A district of Gujarat, India.

Noun capitalized: Surat

Surat (countable and uncountable, plural Surats)

  1. (historical) A coarse uncoloured cotton made at Surat in India.

Forms of surat

pluralsurats
pluralSurats

Phrases with surat

Questions about surat

What does surat mean?
Surat means a large city in Gujarat, India.
What is surat the alternative form of?
Surat is the alternative form of sura.
What part of speech is surat?
Surat can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce surat?
Surat is pronounced /ˈsʊˌɹət/.

Words near surat in the dictionary

  1. surangulars
  2. surans
  3. suras
  4. surasundari
  5. surasundaris
  6. surat
  7. Surat Thani
  8. Surath
  9. surats
  10. Suratt
  11. surau

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surat (page history and authors); Surat (page history and authors); sura (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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