عکس

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See also: عكس and ع ك س

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَكْس (ʕaks).

Pronunciation

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(Dari, formal) IPA^(key):
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Readings
Classical reading^?	aks
Dari reading^?	aks
Iranian reading^?	aks
Tajik reading^?	aks

Audio (Iran): (file)

Noun


Iranian Persian	عکس
Dari	عکس
Tajik	акс

عَکس • ('aks) (plural عکس‌ها ('aks-hâ))

photograph, picture
reflected image, reflection
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 566:
  عکس چندان باید از یاران خوش
  که شوی از بحر بی‏عکس آب کش‏
  'aks čandān bayād az yārān-i xwaš
  ki šawi az bahr bē-'aks āb-kaš
  The reflexion (cast) from goodly friends is necessary
  until you become, without (the aid of any) reflexion, a drawer of water from the Sea.
reverse, contrary, inversion

Derived terms

عکسی ('aksi)
برعکس (bar'aks)

References

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

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ('aks), from Arabic عَكْس (ʕaks).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)əks/

Noun

عَکْس • ('aks) m (Hindi spelling अक्स)

Related terms

عکسی (aksī, “reflectional”)
بر عکس (bar-aks, “opposite, conversely, contrariwise”)

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