منشور

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Arabic[edit]

Root
ن ش ر (n-š-r)

Etymology[edit]

Derived from the passive participle of the verb نَشَرَ (našara).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

مَنْشُور (manšūr) (feminine مَنْشُورَة (manšūra), masculine plural مَنْشُورُونَ (manšūrūna), feminine plural مَنْشُورَات (manšūrāt))

  1. passive participle of نَشَرَ (našara)
    1. published, issued, announced
      1. (Internet) posted (on facebook, etc)
    2. sawn

Declension[edit]

Noun[edit]

مَنْشُور (manšūrm (plural مَنَاشِير (manāšīr) or مَنْشُورَات (manšūrāt))

  1. publication, pamphlet, charter
  2. (politics) manifesto
  3. (geometry) prism
  4. (Internet) a post (on facebook, etc)

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Urdu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

First attested in c. 1684 as Middle Hindi منشور (manśūr), borrowed from Classical Persian مَنْشُور (manšūr), from Arabic مَنْشُور (manšūr).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

مَنْشُور (manśūrm (Hindi spelling मंशूर)

  1. (politics) a manifesto
  2. diploma; patent
  3. constitution; regulation; law
  4. (historical) proclamation; charter; royal ordinance
  5. (geometry) a prism

Declension[edit]

Declension of منشور
singular plural
direct مَنْشُور (manśūr) مَنْشُور (manśūr)
oblique مَنْشُور (manśūr) مَنْشُوروں (manśūrō̃)
vocative مَنْشُور (manśūr) مَنْشُورو (manśūrō)

Adjective[edit]

مَنْشُور (manśūr) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मंशूर)

  1. divulged; published (ie. as a book)
  2. dispersed; scattered
  3. diffused

Further reading[edit]

  • منشور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • منشور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “منشور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “منشور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “منشور”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1123
  • John Shakespear (1834) “منشور”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC