توضیح

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَوْضِيح (tawḍīḥ).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /taw.ˈziːh/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.zíːʱ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.zíː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.zí]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰow.zíːʰ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.zíʱ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	tawzīh
Dari reading^?	tawzīh
Iranian reading^?	towzih
Tajik reading^?	tavzih

Noun


Iranian Persian	توضیح
Dari	توضیح
Tajik	тавзеҳ

تُوضیح • (towzih)

explanation
- early 1700s, Abdul-Qādir Bēdil, کلیات بیدل دهلوی‎^[1]:
  خلق توضیح و بینشت اغماض
  دهر تحقیق و غفلتت منظور
  xalq tawzīh u bēnaš-at eġmâz
  dahr tahqīq u ġaflat-at manzūr
  Creation [is] explanation and your sight [is] blindness,
  Fate [is] verification and your negligence [is] what you see.
  (Classical Persian romanization)

Derived terms

تُوضیح دادَن (towzih dâdan, “to explain”)

Further reading

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “توضیح”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press