تصور

Mediopassive of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara, “to form, depict, to photograph”), from the root ص و ر (ṣ w r).

تَصَوَّرَ • (taṣawwara) V (non-past يَتَصَوَّرُ (yataṣawwaru), verbal noun تَصَوُّر (taṣawwur))

1. to be or become formed, fashioned, figured, shaped, sculptured, pictured, portrayed, photographed
2. (transitive) to imagine, to conceive (something)

   Synonym: تَخَيَّلَ (taḵayyala)

3. (ditransitive) to think (something, someone) to be (something, someone)
4. to appear in one's mind as an image
5. to seem (لِ (li) someone)
6. to fall (as a result of being struck)
7. to photograph oneself

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “صور”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
• Mace, John (2007) “تصور”, in Arabic Verbs, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “صور”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

تَصَوُّر • (taṣawwur) m (plural تَصَوُّرَات (taṣawwurāt))

1. verbal noun of تَصَوَّرَ (taṣawwara) (form V)
2. imagination
3. idea, concept
4. conception

• قَابِل لِلتَّصَوُّر (qābil li-t-taṣawwur, “imaginable”)
• غَيْر قَابِل لِلتَّصَوُّر (gayr qābil li-t-taṣawwur, “unimaginable”)
• ضَعِيف اَلتَّصَوُّر (ḍaʕīf at-taṣawwur, “unimaginative”)

• → Azerbaijani: təsəvvür
• → Persian: تصور (tasavvor)
  • → Urdu: تصور (tasavvur)
    • → Phalura: tasawúr bhíi
• → Ottoman Turkish: تصور (tasavvur)
  • > Turkish: tasavvur (inherited)
  • → Crimean Tatar: tasavur
• → Uyghur: تەسەۋۋۇر (tesewwur)
• → Uzbek: tasavvur

• Mace, John (2007) “تصور”, in Arabic Verbs, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “صور”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

تصور (form II)

1. تُصَوِّرُ (tuṣawwiru) /tu.sˤaw.wi.ru/: inflection of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
2. تُصَوَّرُ (tuṣawwaru) /tu.sˤaw.wa.ru/: inflection of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive indicative
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive indicative
3. تُصَوِّرَ (tuṣawwira) /tu.sˤaw.wi.ra/: inflection of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive
4. تُصَوَّرَ (tuṣawwara) /tu.sˤaw.wa.ra/: inflection of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive subjunctive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive
5. تُصَوِّرْ (tuṣawwir) /tu.sˤaw.wir/: inflection of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
6. تُصَوَّرْ (tuṣawwar) /tu.sˤaw.war/: inflection of صَوَّرَ (ṣawwara):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

From Arabic تَصَوَّرَ (taṣawwara).

• IPA^(key): /tsˤaw.war/

تصور • (tṣawwar) V (non-past يتصور (yitṣawwar))

1. (intransitive) to be or become pictured, portrayed, photographed

   فهاد التصويرة كنت تصورت وآنا مريض مع ما كنتش متعود على داك البرد.

   f-hād et-taṣwīra kunt tṣawwart w-ʔāna mrīḍ mʕa ma kuntši mitʕawwad ʕla dāk el-bard

   In this photograph, I was photographed while I was sick because I wasn't used to the cold.

2. (intransitive) to imagine, to conceive (something)

   Synonyms: تخيل (tḵayyal), تخايل (tḵāyal)

   تصور باللي حنا غير بزاقل قدام الراسماليين الكبار فهاد البلاد.

   tṣawwar b-elli ḥna ḡīr bzāqil quddām er-rāsmāliyyīn le-kbār f-hād le-blād.

   Imagine that we are only pawns for the big capitalists in this country.

   تصور راسك فبلاصته وعاد هدر.

   tṣawwar rāsek fe-blāṣtu w-ʕād hdar.

   Imagine yourself in his place then talk.

3. (ditransitive) to think (something, someone) to be (something, someone)

   تصورتك راجل. ― tṣawwartek rājil. ― I thought you were a man.

4. (intransitive) to photograph oneself

From Arabic تصَوَّر.

• IPA^(key): /tsˤaw.war/, [ɪtˈsˤɑw.wɑrˤ]

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تصوّر • (tṣawwar) V (present بتصوّر (bitṣawwar))

1. passive of صوّر (ṣawwar): to be photographed
2. to photograph, to take a picture (of oneself)

From Arabic تَصَوَّرَ (taṣawwara).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ə.səʋ.ʋʊɾ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊɾ

تَصَوُّر • (tasavvur) ? (Hindi spelling तसव्वुर)

1. imagination, contemplation, reflection, conception, fantasy