تصویر

Borrowed from Arabic تَصْوِير (taṣwīr), from صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara).

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

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

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

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /t̪əs.ʋiːɾ/, [t̪ɐs.ʋiːɾᵊ]

تَصْوِیر • (taṣvīr) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਸਵੀਰ)

1. picture
2. image

Declension of تصویر
dir. sg.	تَصْوِیر (taṣvīr)
dir. pl.	تَصْوِیراں (taṣvīrāṉ)
	singular	plural
direct	تَصْوِیر (taṣvīr)	تَصْوِیراں (taṣvīrāṉ)
oblique	تَصْوِیر (taṣvīr)	تَصْوِیراں (taṣvīrāṉ)
vocative	تَصْوِیرے (taṣvīre)	تَصْوِیرو (taṣvīro)
ablative	تَصْوِیروں (taṣvīroṉ)	تَصْوِیراں (taṣvīrāṉ)
locative	تَصْوِیری (taṣvīrī)	تَصْوِیرِیں (taṣvīrīṉ)
instrumental	تَصْوِیرِیں (taṣvīrīṉ)	تَصْوِیرے (taṣvīre)

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

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

   Antonym: آواز (āvāz)

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

• “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 T. (1884) “تصویر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• 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