ناظر

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Arabic

Etymology

Root
ن ظ ر (n ẓ r)
14 terms

Derived from the active participle of نَظَرَ (naẓara) and from نَظِير (naẓīr).

Pronunciation

Adjective

نَاظِر (nāẓir) (feminine نَاظِرَة (nāẓira), masculine plural نَاظِرُونَ (nāẓirūna), feminine plural نَاظِرَات (nāẓirāt))

  1. active participle of نَظَرَ (naẓara)

Declension

Noun

نَاظِر (nāẓirm (plural نُظَّار (nuẓẓār) or نَاظِرُونَ (nāẓirūna), feminine نَاظِرَة (nāẓira))

  1. observer, viewer, spectator, onlooker
  2. supervisor
  3. inspector
  4. manager, director, superintendent, administrator, chief; (education) principal, headmaster (of a school)
  5. (politics, obsolete) minister

Declension

Noun

نَاظِر (nāẓirm (plural نَوَاظِر (nawāẓir))

  1. eye
    Synonym: نَاظِرَة (nāẓira)
  2. corner of the eye next to the nose
    Synonyms: مَأْق (maʔq), لِحَاظ (liḥāẓ)

Declension

Verb

نَاظَرَ (nāẓara) III (non-past يُنَاظِرُ (yunāẓiru), verbal noun مُنَاظَرَة (munāẓara))

  1. (transitive) to debate
  2. (transitive) to equal, to correspond to

Conjugation

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نظر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَاظِر (nāẓir).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? nāzir
Dari reading? nāzir
Iranian reading? nâzer
Tajik reading? nozir

Noun

ناظر (nâzer)

  1. watcher, supervisor, observer
    • 2024 May 28, “تانک‌های اسرائیل به مرکز شهر رفح رسیدند”, in bbc.com/persian, BBC Persian:
      این حمله هوایی اسرائیل را سازمان ملل، اتحادیه اروپا، کشورهای عربی و نهادهای ناظر بر حقوق بشر یکی پس از دیگر محکوم کردند.
      in hamle-ye havâyi-ye esrâ'il râ sâzmân-e melal, ettehâdiye-ye orupâ, kešvar-hâ-ye arabi va nahâd-hâ-ye nâzer bar hoquq-e bašar yeki pas az digar mahkum kardand.
      One after the other, the United Nations, the European Union, Arab countries, and human rights monitoring institutions condemned this air strike by Israel.

Further reading

Urdu

Pronunciation

Adjective

ناظر (nāzir) (Hindi spelling नाज़िर)

  1. omniscient
  2. seeing
  3. looking
  4. inspecting

Noun

ناظر (nāzirm (Hindi spelling नाज़िर)

  1. watcher
  2. viewer
  3. supervisor
  4. superintendent
  5. inspector
  6. observer
  7. spectator
  8. bailiff
  9. overseer