تماشا
Persian
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic مَشَى (mašā, “to walk”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
تماشا • (tamâšâ)
- sight seeing
- walking outside for recreation
- beholding
- looking at anything comic or tragic
- an entertainment, show, theatrical representation
- sport, amusement, pleasure
- interest
- any interesting object
Derived terms
- تماشا کردن (tamâšâ kardan)
Descendants
- Armenian: թամաշա (tʻamaša)
- Azerbaijani: tamaşa
- Bashkir: тамаша (tamaşa)
- → Indonesian: tamasya
- Tatar: тамаша (tamaşa)
- Kazakh: тамаша (tamaşa)
- Kirgyz: тамаша (tamaşa)
- Bengali: তামাশা (tamaśa)
- Georgian: თამაში (tamaši)
- Uyghur: تاماشا (tamasha)
- Uzbek: tomosha
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تماشا”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul