تحریک

See also: تحريك

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic تَحْرِيك (taḥrīk, “moving, stirring; instigation; stimulation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tah.ɾiːk]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäɦ.ɾiːk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäɦ.ɾiːk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.ɾiːk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔː.ɾik]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæɦ.ɹiːkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäɦ.ɾik]

Readings
Classical reading?	tahrīk
Dari reading?	tahrīk
Iranian reading?	tahrik
Tajik reading?	tahrik

Noun

تَحْریک • (tahrik) (plural تحریک‌ها (tahrik-hâ) or تحریکات (tahrikât))

1. stimulation
2. incitement
3. excitation (the act or result of exciting)

Synonyms

• برانگیزش (bar-angizeš)

Derived terms

• تحریک کردن (tahrik kardan)
• تحریک‌آمیز (tahrik-âmiz)

Related terms

• حَرَکَت (harakat)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تحریک (tahrīk), from Arabic تَحْرِيك (taḥrīk).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪əɦ.ɾiːk/, [t̪ɛɦ.ɾiːk]
• Rhymes: -iːk
• Hyphenation: تَح‧رِیک

Noun

تَحْرِیک • (tahrīk) f (Hindi spelling तहरीक)

1. (literally, dated) motion, movement
2. movement (ie. an organisation with a specific objective)
3. a scheme, project
4. motion (ie. a proposal)

Declension

Declension of تحریک
	singular	plural
direct	تَحْرِیک (tahrīk)	تَحْرِیکیں (tahrīkẽ)
oblique	تَحْرِیک (tahrīk)	تَحْرِیکوں (tahrīkõ)
vocative	تَحْرِیک (tahrīk)	تَحْرِیکو (tahrīko)

Further reading

• “تحریک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “تحریک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تحریک”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 184
• Platts, John T. (1884) “تحريك”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 406
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “تحريک”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 406
• John Shakespear (1834) “تحريک”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC