تماشا

Azerbaijani

Noun

تماشا

1. Arabic spelling of təmaşa

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تماشا (tamâšâ).

Noun

تماشا • (temaşa)

1. promenade
2. spectacle

Related terms

• تماشی (temaşi)

Descendants

• Turkish: temaşa

Persian

Etymology

From earlier تماشی (tamâši, “walking together, walking with someone”), from Arabic تَمَاشٍ (tamāšin), verbal noun of تَمَاشَى (tamāšā).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ta.mɑː.ʃɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.mɑː.ʃɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.mɑː.ʃɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.mɑː.ʃɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.mɔː.ʃɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæ.mɒː.ʃɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.mɔ.ʃɔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	tamāšā
Dari reading?	tamāšā
Iranian reading?	tamâšâ
Tajik reading?	tamošo

Noun

Dari	تماشا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	тамошо

تماشا • (tamâšâ)

1. (archaic) promenade, walking outside for recreation
2. sight, seeing, beholding, watching, looking at something entertaining (e.g. a show or a play, whether comic or tragic)
3. an entertainment, show, spectacle, theatrical representation
4. sport, amusement, pleasure
5. interest
6. any interesting object

Derived terms

• تماشا کردن (tamâšâ kardan)
• تماشائی (tamâšâ'i)
• تماشاخانه (tamâšâxâne)

 

Descendants

• → Armenian: թամաշա (tʻamaša)
• → Azerbaijani: təmaşa, tamaşa
• → Bengali: তামাশা (tamaśa)
• → Bashkir: тамаша (tamaşa)
• → Georgian: თამაში (tamaši)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तमाशा (tamāśā)

  • → English: tamasha
  • → Mauritian Creole: tamasa

  Urdu: تَمَاشَہ (tamāśa)

• → Indonesian: tamasya
• → Kazakh: тамаша (tamaşa)
• → Kyrgyz: тамаша (tamaşa)
• → Marathi: तमाशा (tamāśā)
• → Ottoman Turkish: تماشا (temaşa)
  • Turkish: temaşa
• → Pashto: تماشا
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਤਮਾਸ਼ਾ (tamāśā)

  Shahmukhi script: تماشہ (tamāśā)

• → Sindhi: تماشو
• → Swahili: tamasha
• → Tatar: тамаша (tamaşa)
• → Turkmen: tomaşa
• → Uyghur: تاماشا (tamasha)
• → Uzbek: tamosho, tomosha

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تماشا”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul