توصیف

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَوْصِيف (tawṣīf).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [taw.ˈsiːf]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.síːf]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.síːf]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.síːf]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.síf]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰow.síːf]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰow.síːf]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰoː.siːf]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.síf]

Readings
Classical reading?	tawsīf
Dari reading?	tawsīf
Iranian reading?	towsif
Tajik reading?	tavsif

Noun

Dari	توصیف
Iranian Persian
Tajik	тавсиф

توصیف • (towsif)

1. description
2. (specifically) praise, commendation
   • c. 1160, Rashīd ad-Dīn Vaṭvāṭ, دیوان وطواط:

     گشته معدوم بر رمح توصیف رستم
     گشته منسوخ بر نام تو تیر آرش

     gašta ma'dūm bar rumh tawsīf-i rustam
     gašta mansūx bar nām-i tu tīr-i āraš

     The praise of Rustam became nonexistent due to [praise of your] spear;
     The arrow of Ārash became erased due to your name.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• توصیف کردن (towsif kardan)
• توصیفی (towsifi)

 

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “توصیف”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim