zahiri

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See also: Zahiri and zâhirî

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic ظَاهِرِيّ (ẓāhiriyy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: za‧hi‧ri

Adjective

zahiri (comparative daha zahiri, superlative ən zahiri)

  1. external, exterior (pertaining to the appearance rather than to the inside)
    Synonym: xarici
    Antonym: daxili
    zahiri görünüşphysical appearance
  2. seeming, putative, ostensible (being such in appearance but in fact not real)

Further reading

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ظَاهِر (ẓāhir).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /záː.hì.ríː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key):

Noun

zāhìr̃ī m (possessed form zāhìr̃in)

  1. clearness, obviousness

Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ظاهری (zâhirî), from Arabic ظَاهِرِيّ (ẓāhiriyy). By surface analysis, zahir (external) +‎ -i (nisba suffix).

Adjective

zahiri

  1. exoteric

Antonyms