ضمیر

See also: ضمير

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمِير (ḍamīr, conscience; pronoun).

Noun

ضمیر • (zamir) (plural ضمایر (zamair))

  1. conscience, the ethical or moral sense of right and wrong
    Synonym: وجدان (vicdan)
  2. (grammar) pronoun, a type of word that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase

Derived terms

  • ضمیری (zamiri, pronominal)

Descendants

  • Turkish: zamir

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمِير (ḍamīr).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? zamīr
Dari reading? zamīr
Iranian reading? zamir
Tajik reading? zamir

Noun

Dari ضمیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik замир

ضمیر • (zamir) (plural ضمایر (zamâyer), or ضمیرها)

  1. (grammar) pronoun
  2. mind
  3. heart
  4. secret

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ضَمِیر (zamīr), from Arabic ضَمِير (ḍamīr). First attested in c. 1657[1] as Middle Hindi ضمیر (zamīr).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /zə.miːɾ/
  • Rhymes: -iːɾ
  • Hyphenation: ضَ‧مِیر

Noun

ضَمِیر • (zamīrm (Hindi spelling ज़मीर)

  1. conscience; mind, heart
  2. a kept secret[2]
  3. (grammar) pronoun

Declension

Declension of ضمیر
singular plural
direct ضَمِیر (zamīr) ضَمِیر (zamīr)
oblique ضَمِیر (zamīr) ضَمِیروں (zamīrõ)
vocative ضَمِیر (zamīr) ضَمِیرو (zamīro)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ض م ر (0 c, 1 e)

References

  1. ^ ضمیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Farhang-i-Asifiya

Further reading

  • ضمیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ضمیر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “ضمير”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 750
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “ضمیر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “ضمیر”, 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