منظر

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن ظ ر (n ẓ r)
15 terms

Verbal noun and noun of place from the verb نَظَرَ (naẓara, to perceive with the eyes).

Noun

مَنْظَر (manẓarm (plural مَنَاظِر (manāẓir))

  1. verbal noun of نَظَرَ (naẓara) (form I)
  2. sight
  3. view, panorama
    هَذَا الْمَنْظَرُ جَمِيلٌ جِدًا فِي غُرُوبِ الشَّمْسِ.
    haḏā l-manẓaru jamīlun jidan fī ḡurūbi š-šamsi.
    This view is very beautiful at sunset.
  4. looks, appearance, aspect
  5. prospect, outlook, perspective
  6. (photography) object
  7. scene (of a play)
  8. spectacle
  9. stage setting, set, scenery
  10. lookout, watchtower
Declension
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: منظر (manzar)

Etymology 2

Root
ن ظ ر (n ẓ r)
15 terms

Tool noun from the verb نَظَرَ (naẓara, to perceive with the eyes).

Noun

مِنْظَر (minẓarm

  1. pair of eyeglasses, spectacles
  2. telescope
Declension

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْظَر (manẓar)

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? manzar
Dari reading? manzar
Iranian reading? manzar
Tajik reading? manzar
Dari منظر
Iranian Persian
Tajik манзар

Noun

منظر (manzar) (plural مناظر (manâzer))

  1. aspect, look, appearance
  2. sight, view
  3. perspective
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3766:
      هر هوا و ذره‌‌ای خود منظری است
      ناگشاده کی گود کانجا دری است
      har hawā u zarra-i xwad manzar-ē-st
      nā-gušāda kī guwad kānjā dar-ē-st
      Every air and mote is indeed a place for vision (of God),
      (but so long as it is) unopened, who says “Yonder is a door”?

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَنْظَر (manzar), from Arabic مَنْظَر (manẓar).

Pronunciation

Noun

مَنْظَر (manzarm (formal plural مناظر, Hindi spelling मंज़र)

  1. sight; view; scene
  2. the horizon
  3. the eye; pupil
  4. (figuratively) exhibition (of some kind)

Declension

    Declension of منظر
singular plural
direct مَنْظَر (manz̤ar) مَنْظَر (manz̤ar)
oblique مَنْظَر (manz̤ar) مَنْظَروں (manz̤arõ)
vocative مَنْظَر (manz̤ar) مَنْظَرو (manz̤aro)

Further reading

  • منظر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • منظر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “منظر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.