توصیف

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَوْصِيف (tawṣīf).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	tawsīf
Dari reading^?	tawsīf
Iranian reading^?	towsif
Tajik reading^?	tavsif

Noun


Iranian Persian	توصیف
Dari	توصیف
Tajik	тавсиф

توصیف • (towsif)

description
(specifically) praise, commendation
- c. 1160, Rashīd ad-Dīn Vaṭvāṭ, دیوان وطواط:
  گشته معدوم بر رمح توصیف رستم
  گشته منسوخ بر نام تو تیر آرش
  gašta ma'dūm bar rumh tawsīf-i rustam
  gašta mansūx bar nām-i tu tīr-i āraš
  The praise of Rustam became nonexistent due to spear;
  The arrow of Ārash became erased due to your name.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

توصیف کردن (towsif kardan)
توصیفی (towsifi)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “توصیف”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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