تصویر

See also: تصوير

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic تَصْوِير (taṣwīr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tas.ˈwiːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäs.wíːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäs.wíːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäs.wíːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäs.wíɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæs.víːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäs.víɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	taswīr
Dari reading?	taswīr
Iranian reading?	tasvir
Tajik reading?	tasvir

Noun

Dari	تصویر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	тасвир

تَصْویر • (tasvir) (plural تَصَاویر (tasâvir) or تَصْویرْهَا (tasvir-hâ))

1. image, depiction, portrayal (representation of reality)

   تصویری از حقیقت ― tasviri az haqiqat ― a portrayal of the truth

   1. photograph, picture

      Synonym: عکس ('aks)

   2. painting, portrait

Derived terms

• تصویر کردن (tasvir kardan, “to portray, to draw”)
• تصویرگر (tasvirgar, “illustrator”)

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: təsvir
• → Bengali: তসবির (tosbir)
• → Gujarati: તસવીર (tasvīr)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तस्वीर (tasvīr)

  Urdu: تَصْوِیر (tasvīr)

  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਤਸਵੀਰ (tasvīr)
    • Shahmukhi script: تَصْوِیر (taṣvīr)

• → Kumyk: тасвир (taswir)
• → Uzbek: tasvir

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu تَصْوِیر (tasvīr), from Classical Persian تصویر (taswīr), from Arabic تَصْوِير (taṣwīr).

Noun

تصویر • (tasvīr) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਸਵੀਰ)

1. picture
2. image

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1500 as Middle Hindi تَصْوِیر (tasvīr), borrowed from Classical Persian تَصْوِیر (taswīr), from Arabic تَصْوِير (taṣwīr).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪əs.ʋiːɾ/, [t̪əs.wiːɾ]

• Audio (Pakistan)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːɾ
• Hyphenation: تَصْ‧وِیر

Noun

تَصْوِیر • (tasvīr) f (formal plural تَصَاوِیر (tasāvīr), Hindi spelling तस्वीर)

1. image, picture, photograph
2. (archaic) depiction, portrayal, drawing

   Synonym: آواز (āvāz)

3. (figuratively) a representation, figure
4. (figuratively) condition, state
5. (broadcasting) video (as opposed to sound)

Declension

Declension of تصویر
	singular	plural
direct	تَصْوِیر (taṣvīr)	تَصْوِیریں (taṣvīrẽ)
oblique	تَصْوِیر (taṣvīr)	تَصْوِیروں (taṣvīrõ)
vocative	تَصْوِیر (taṣvīr)	تَصْوِیرو (taṣvīro)

Descendants

• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਤਸਵੀਰ (tasvīr)
  • Shahmukhi script: تَصْوِیر (taṣvīr)

Further reading

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