دوردرشن

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Pronunciation

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, archived from the original on 17 August 2020:

Noun

دُوردَرْشَن • (dūrdarśan) m (Hindi spelling दूरदर्शन) (rare)

  1. 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. farsightedness
    Synonyms: دُور اَنْدیشِی (dūr andeśī), دُور بِینِی (dūr bīnī)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “duurdarshan”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “دوردرشن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  3. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “dūr-darśan”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 532
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