تعریف
See also: تعريف and تعريق
Persian
Etymology
From Arabic تَعْرِيف (taʿrīf).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian): IPA(key): /taʔɾiːf/
- (Dari): IPA(key): /taʔɾiːf/
- (Iranian Persian): IPA(key): /tæʔɾiːf/
- (Tajik): IPA(key): /taʔɾif/
Noun
تعریف • (ta'rif) (plural تعریفها (ta'rif-hâ) or تعاریف (ta'ârif))
- definition
- description, explanation, narration
- praise, commendation
- making something known
- c. 1260, Rumi, “2:290—291”, in The Masnavi:
- دشمن روزند این قلابکان، عاشق روزند آن زرهای کان، ز آن که روز است آینهی تعریف او.
- došman-e ruz-and in qellâbekân, 'âšeq-e ruz-and ân zarhâ-ye kân, z-ân-ke ruz ast âyene-ye ta'rif-e u.
- These counterfeiters are the enemies of the day, and those pieces of gold are the lovers of day, because the day is the mirror that makes it [the purity of gold] known.
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Derived terms
- تعریف کردن (ta'rif kardan, “to define, to describe, to praise”)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: tərif
- → Bengali: তারিফ (tariphô)
- → Gujarati: તારીફ (tārīph)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: तारीफ़ (tārīf)
- Urdu: تعریف (tārīf)
- → Kannada: ತಾರೀಪು (tārīpu)
- → Marathi: तारीफ (tārīph)
- → Ottoman Turkish: تعریف
- Turkish: tarif
- → Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਤਾਰੀਫ਼ (tārīf)
- Shahmukhi: تعرِیف (tʻrīf)
- → Uzbek: taʼrif
- → Uyghur: تەرىپ (terip)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian تعریف, from Arabic تَعْرِيف (taʿrīf).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪ɑː.ɾiːf/
Noun
تعریف • (tārīf) f (Hindi spelling तारीफ़)
- definition, description
- praise, commendation, laudation, admiration
- a table of rates of export and import duties