عکس

See also: عكس and ع ك س

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَكْس (ʕaks).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔaks]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäks]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäks]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäks]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäks]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔækʲs]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäks]

Readings
Classical reading?	aks
Dari reading?	aks
Iranian reading?	aks
Tajik reading?	aks

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	عکس
Iranian Persian
Tajik	акс

عَکس • ('aks) (plural عکس‌ها ('aks-hâ))

1. photograph, picture
2. reflected image, reflection
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 566:

     عکس چندان باید از یاران خوش
     که شوی از بحر بیعکس آب کش

     'aks čandān bayād az yārān-i xwaš
     ki šawi az bahr bē-'aks āb-kaš

     The reflexion (cast) from goodly friends is necessary
     until you become, without (the aid of any) reflexion, a drawer of water from the Sea.

3. reverse, contrary, inversion

Derived terms

• عکسی ('aksi)
• برعکس (bar'aks)

References

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

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عکس ('aks), from Arabic عَكْس (ʕaks).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)əks/

Noun

عَکْس • ('aks) m (Hindi spelling अक्स)

1. reverse
2. inverse
3. counterpart
4. reflection
5. photograph
6. shadow
7. opposition

Related terms

• عکسی (aksī, “reflectional”)
• بر عکس (bar-aks, “opposite, conversely, contrariwise”)