تدبیر

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَدْبِير (tadbīr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tað.biːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäd̪.biːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäd̪.biːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäd̪.biːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäd̪.biɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæd̪.biːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäd̪.biɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	taḏbīr
Dari reading?	tadbīr
Iranian reading?	tadbir
Tajik reading?	tadbir

Noun

تدبیر • (tadbir) (plural تدابیر (tadâbir) or تدبیر‌ها (tadbir-hâ))

1. plan; strategy; policy

   تدبیرِ جنگ ― tadbir-e jang ― war strategy

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume II, verse 1060:

     افکن این تدبیر خود را پیش دوست
     گر چه تدبیرت هم از تدبیر اوست

     afkan īn tadbīr-i xwad rā pēš-i dōst
     gar či tadbīr-at ham az tadbīr-i ō-st

     Cast away this contrivance of yours before the Beloved—
     though your contrivance indeed is of His contriving.

2. management

   تدبیرِ منزل ― tadbir-e manzel ― household management

3. prudence; deliberation

Derived terms

• بی‌تدبیر (bi-tadbir)
• تدبیر کردن (tadbir kardan)
• تدبیرشده (tadbir-šode)
• تدبیر‌شناس (tadbir-šenâs)