تصویر

From Arabic تَصْوِير (taṣwīr).

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

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

تصویر • (tasvīr) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਸਵੀਰ)

1. picture
2. image

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

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

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• Rhymes: -iːɾ
• Hyphenation: تَصْ‧وِیر

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)

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

• “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