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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Arabic ظَاهِرِيّ (ẓāhiriyy).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: za‧hi‧ri
Adjective
zahiri (comparative daha zahiri, superlative ən zahiri)
- external, exterior (pertaining to the appearance rather than to the inside)
- Synonym: xarici
- Antonym: daxili
- zahiri görünüş ― physical appearance
- seeming, putative, ostensible (being such in appearance but in fact not real)
Further reading
Hausa
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ظَاهِر (ẓāhir).
Pronunciation
Noun
zāhìr̃ī m (possessed form zāhìr̃in)
- clearness, obviousness
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ظاهری (zâhirî), from Arabic ظَاهِرِيّ (ẓāhiriyy). By surface analysis, zahir (“external”) + -i (nisba suffix).
Adjective
zahiri
- exoteric
Antonyms