تصوير

See also: تصویر

Arabic

Root
ص و ر (ṣ w r)
10 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tasˤ.wiːr/

Noun

تَصْوِير • (taṣwīr) m

1. verbal noun of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara) (form II)
2. depiction
3. photography
4. drawing
5. painting

Declension

Declension of noun تَصْوِير (taṣwīr)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	تَصْوِير taṣwīr	التَّصْوِير at-taṣwīr	تَصْوِير taṣwīr
nominative	تَصْوِيرٌ taṣwīrun	التَّصْوِيرُ at-taṣwīru	تَصْوِيرُ taṣwīru
accusative	تَصْوِيرًا taṣwīran	التَّصْوِيرَ at-taṣwīra	تَصْوِيرَ taṣwīra
genitive	تَصْوِيرٍ taṣwīrin	التَّصْوِيرِ at-taṣwīri	تَصْوِيرِ taṣwīri

Synonyms

• (photography): التَّصْوِير الشَّمْسِيّ (at-taṣwīr aš-šamsiyy)

Descendants

• → Classical Persian: تَصْوِیر (taswīr)
  • → Azerbaijani: təsvir
  • → Bengali: তসবির (tosbir)
  • → Gujarati: તસવીર (tasvīr)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: तस्वीर (tasvīr)

    Urdu: تَصْوِیر (tasvīr)

  • → Kashmiri: تصویٖر (tasvir)
  • → Kumyk: тасвир (taswir)
  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਤਸਵੀਰ (tasvīr)
    • Shahmukhi script: تَصْوِیر (taṣvīr)
  • → Sindhi: تَصوِيرَ (taṣvīra)
  • → Chagatai:
    • Uyghur: تەسۋىر (teswir)
    • Uzbek: tasvir
• → Malay: taswir
  • Indonesian: taswir
  • → Betawi: tesuir
• → Ottoman Turkish: تصویر (tasvir)
  • Turkish: tasvir
• → Uyghur: تەسۋىر (teswir)

References

• Mace, John (2007), “تصور”, in Arabic Verbs, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “صور”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تَصْوِیر (taswīr), borrowed from Arabic تَصْوِير (taṣwīr), from صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara).

Noun

تَصْوِيرَ • (taṣvīra) f (Devanagari तस्वीर)

1. picture

Declension

Declension of تَصوِيرَ (fem a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	تَصوِيرَ taṣoīra	تَصوِيرُون, تَصوِيران1 taṣoīrū̃, taṣoīrā̃1
oblique	تَصوِيرَ taṣoīra	تَصوِيرُنِ, تَصوِيران1 taṣoīruni, taṣoīrā̃1
vocative	تَصوِيرَ taṣoīra	تَصوِيرُون, تَصوِيران1 taṣoīrū̃, taṣoīrā̃1

¹Siroli.

Further reading

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910), “تصوير”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, page 94
• Shirt, George; Thavurdas, Udharam; Mirza, S.F. (1879), “تصوير”, in A Sindhi-English Dictionary, Karachi: Commissioner's Printing Press, page 174
• Sindhi Language Authority (2025), “تصوير”, in Online Sindhi Dictionaries‎^[1]