دوردرشن
Urdu
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪uːɾ.d̪əɾ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -ən
- Hyphenation: دُور‧دَرْ‧شَن
Etymology 1
Calque of English television: دُور (dūr, “far”) + دَرْشَن (darśan, “vision, sight”).
Proper noun
دُوردَرْشَن • (dūrdarśan) m (Hindi spelling दूरदर्शन)[1]
- Doordarshan (the first television network of India)
- 1984 March 31, مَشْرِق [maśriq], کَراچِی [karācī], page 3:
- اَمْرِت سَر دُورْدَرْشَن نے جو بھارْتِی فِلْموں کِی ثَقافَتِی یَلْغار شُرُوع کِی ہَے اُس سے بَچْنے [کے]... کْیا اِنْتِظام کِئے ہَیں
- amrit sar dūrdarśan ne jo bhārtī filmõ kī saqāfatī yalġār śurū' kī hai us se bacne [ke]... kyā intizām kie ha͠i
- Amrit sir, what preparations have been made to survive Doordarshan's cultural onslaught of Indian films?
- 2020 May 12, “اِنْڈِیَا کے چَینَل دُوردَرْشَن پَر پاکِسْتان کے زیر اِنْتِظام کَشْمِیر کے عِلاقوں اَور گِلْگِت بَلْتِسْتان کے مَوسَم کی خَبریں کْیُوں [inḍiyā ke cainal dūrdarśan par pākistān ke zer intizām kaśmīr ke 'ilāqõ aur gilgit baltistān ke mausam kī xabrẽ kyū̃, Why is news about the weather of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan on the Indian channel Doordarshan?]”, in BBC News Urdu[1], archived from the original on 17 August 2020:
Noun
دُوردَرْشَن • (dūrdarśan) m (Hindi spelling दूरदर्शन) (rare)[1][2]
- television
- Synonyms: ٹیلِی وِیژَن (ṭelī vīźan), دُور نَمَائِی (dūr namāī), ٹِی وِی (ṭī vī)
Etymology 2
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit दूरदर्शन (dūradarśana).
Noun
دُوردَرْشَن • (dūrdarśan) m (Hindi spelling दूरदर्शन) (rare)[1][2][3]
- farsightedness
- Synonyms: دُور اَنْدیشِی (dūr andeśī), دُور بِینِی (dūr bīnī)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “duurdarshan”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “دوردرشن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “dūr-darśan”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 532