اختصار

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Arabic

Root
خ ص ر (ḵ ṣ r)
6 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

اِخْتِصَار (iḵtiṣārm (plural اِخْتِصَارَات (iḵtiṣārāt))

  1. verbal noun of اِخْتَصَرَ (iḵtaṣara) (form VIII)
  2. abbreviation
  3. shortening

Declension

Descendants

Persian

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? ixtisār
Dari reading? ixtisār
Iranian reading? extesâr
Tajik reading? ixtisor

Noun

اختصار (extesâr)

  1. abbreviation
  2. summary

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِخْتِصَار (ixtisār), from Arabic اِخْتِصَار (iḵtiṣār).

Pronunciation

Noun

اِخْتِصَار (ixtisārm (Hindi spelling इख़्तिसार)

  1. brief, summary
  2. abridgement; abbreviation
  3. conciseness; brevity; condensation
  4. (mathematics) simplification (of fractions)

Declension

    Declension of اختصار
singular plural
direct اِخْتِصَار (ixtisār) اِخْتِصَار (ixtisār)
oblique اِخْتِصَار (ixtisār) اِخْتِصَاروں (ixtisārõ)
vocative اِخْتِصَار (ixtisār) اِخْتِصَارو (ixtisāro)

Further reading

  • اختصار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • اختصار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اختصار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “اختصار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “اِخ؟تِصار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 50
  • John Shakespear (1834) “اختصار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC