منشور

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Arabic

Root
ن ش ر (n š r)
9 terms

Etymology

Derived from the passive participle of the verb نَشَرَ (našara).

Pronunciation

Adjective

مَنْشُور (manšūr) (feminine مَنْشُورَة (manšūra), masculine plural مَنْشُورُونَ (manšūrūna), feminine plural مَنْشُورَات (manšūrāt))

  1. passive participle of نَشَرَ (našara)
    1. published, issued, announced
      1. (Internet) posted (on facebook, etc)
    2. sawn

Declension

Noun

مَنْشُور (manšūrm (plural مَنَاشِير (manāšīr) or مَنْشُورَات (manšūrāt))

  1. publication, pamphlet, charter
  2. (politics) manifesto
  3. (geometry) prism
  4. (Internet) a post (on facebook, etc)

Declension

Descendants

Persian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْشُور (manšūr).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? manšūr
Dari reading? manšūr
Iranian reading? manšur
Tajik reading? manšur

Noun

منشور (manšur)

  1. prism
  2. charter
  3. (historical) royal writ of appointment or charter
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 219:
      مده پند من از عشق بتان ناصح چون ممکن نیست
      که تا ندهند با من عاشقان منشور بنشینم
      madih pand-i man az išq-i butān nāsih čūn mumkin nēst
      ki tā na-dihand bā man āšiqān manšūr binšīnam
      Councillor! Do not advise me about the love for beauties, for it is not possible
      For me to sit down until the lovers give me their royal writ.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَنْشُور (manšūr), from Arabic مَنْشُور (manšūr).[1][2] First attested in c. 1684 as Middle Hindi منشور (mnśvr⁩ /⁠manśūr⁠/).[3]

Pronunciation

Noun

مَنْشُور (manśūrm (Hindi spelling मंशूर)

  1. (politics) a manifesto
  2. diploma; patent
  3. constitution; regulation; law
  4. (historical) proclamation; charter; royal ordinance
  5. (geometry) a prism

Declension

    Declension of منشور
singular plural
direct مَنْشُور (manśūr) مَنْشُور (manśūr)
oblique مَنْشُور (manśūr) مَنْشُوروں (manśūrõ)
vocative مَنْشُور (manśūr) مَنْشُورو (manśūro)

Adjective

مَنْشُور (manśūr) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मंशूर)

  1. divulged; published (ie. as a book)
  2. dispersed; scattered
  3. diffused

References

  1. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “منشور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  2. ^ John Shakespear (1834) “منشور”, 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
  3. ^ منشور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

  • منشور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “منشور”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]