تعبیر

Persian

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic تَعْبِير (taʕbīr).

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? ta'bīr
    Dari reading? ta'bīr
    Iranian reading? ta'bir
    Tajik reading? ta'bir

    Noun

    تعبیر • (ta'bir)

    1. expression
    2. interpretation
      سوء تعبیرsu'-e ta'birmisinterpretation

    Descendants

    • Hindustani:
    • Punjabi: ਤਾਬੀਰ (tābīr), تَعْبِیر (taʻbīr)

    Further reading

    Urdu

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Classical Persian تَعْبِیر (ta'bīr), borrowed from Arabic تَعْبِير (taʕbīr), from عَبَّر (ʕabbar).[1][2][3] First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi تعبیر (t'byr /⁠ta'bīr⁠/).[4]

      Pronunciation

      • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t̪əʔ.biːɾ/, [t̪ɑː.biːɾ]
      • Rhymes: -iːɾ
      • Hyphenation: تَعْ‧بِیر

      Noun

      تَعْبِیر • (ta'bīrf (formal plural تَعْبِیرَات (ta'bīrāt), Hindi spelling ताबीर)

      1. interpretation, elucidation (of a dream)
      2. explanation; putting a new construction (on words)

      Declension

      Declension of تعبیر
      singular plural
      direct تَعْبِیر (ta'bīr) تَعْبِیریں (ta'bīrẽ)
      oblique تَعْبِیر (ta'bīr) تَعْبِیروں (ta'bīrõ)
      vocative تَعْبِیر (ta'bīr) تَعْبِیرو (ta'bīro)

      References

      1. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “تعبیر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
      2. ^ S. W. Fallon (1879) “تعبیر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
      3. ^ John Shakespear (1834) “تعبیر”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
      4. ^ تعبیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

      Further reading

      • تعبیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
      • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “تعبیر”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]