تعریف

See also: تعريف and تعريق

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَعْرِيف (taʕrīf).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [taʔ.ɾiːf]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäʔ.ɾiːf]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäʔ.ɾiːf]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.ɾiːf]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔː.ɾif]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæʔ.ɹiːf]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäʔ.ɾif]

Readings
Classical reading?	ta'rīf
Dari reading?	ta'rīf
Iranian reading?	ta'rif
Tajik reading?	taʾrif

Noun

تعریف • (ta'rif) (plural تعریف‌ها (ta'rif-hâ) or تعاریف (ta'ârif))

1. definition
2. description, explanation, narration
3. praise, commendation

   تعریف از خود ― ta'rif az xod ― self-praise

4. making something known
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 290—291:

     دشمن روزند این قلابکان
     عاشق روزند آن زرهای کان
     ز آن که روز است آینه‌ی تعریف او

     dušman-i rōz-and īn qallābakān
     âšiq-e rōz-and ān zar-hā-yi kān
     z-ān-ki rōz ast āyina-yi ta'rīf-i ō

     These counterfeiters are the enemies of the day,
     And those pieces of gold are the lovers of day,
     Because the day is the mirror that makes it [the purity of gold] known.

Derived terms

• تعریف کردن (ta'rif kardan, “to define, to describe, to praise”)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: tərif
• → Bengali: তারিফ (tariph)
• → Gujarati: તારીફ (tārīph)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तारीफ़ (tārīf)

  Urdu: تَعْرِیف (ta'rīf)

• Kannada: ತಾರೀಫು (tārīphu), ತಾರೀಪು (tārīpu)
• → Marathi: तारीफ (tārīph)
• → Ottoman Turkish: تعریف
  • Turkish: tarif
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਤਾਰੀਫ਼ (tārīf)

  Shahmukhi script: تَعْرِیف (taʻrīf)

• → Uzbek: taʼrif
• → Uyghur: تەرىپ (terip)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تَعْرِیف (ta'rīf), borrowed from Arabic تَعْرِيف (taʕrīf).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ə.(ʔ)ɾiːf/, /t̪ɑː.ɾiːf/

Noun

تَعْرِیف • (ta'rīf) f (Hindi spelling तारीफ़)

1. definition, description
2. praise, commendation, laudation, admiration
3. a table of rates of export and import duties