तारीफ़

See also: तरफ़, तरफ, तरफ़ा, and तारीफ

Hindi

Alternative forms

तारीफ (tārīph)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تعریف (ta'rīf), from Arabic تَعْرِيف (taʕrīf). Compare Punjabi ਤਾਰੀਫ਼ (tārīf) / تعرِیف (tʻrīf), Gujarati તારીફ (tārīph), Marathi तारीफ (tārīph), Bengali তারিফ (tariph), Kannada ತಾರೀಪು (tārīpu), ತಾರೀಫು (tārīphu).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /t̪ɑː.ɾiːf/, [t̪äː.ɾiːf], /t̪ɑː.ɾiːpʰ/, [t̪äː.ɾiːpʰ]

Noun

तारीफ़ • (tārīf) f (Urdu spelling تَعْرِیف)

1. praise, commendation

   Synonym: प्रशंसा (praśansā)

Declension

Declension of तारीफ़ (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	तारीफ़ tārīf	तारीफ़ें tārīfẽ
oblique	तारीफ़ tārīf	तारीफ़ों tārīfõ
vocative	तारीफ़ tārīf	तारीफ़ो tārīfo

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “तारीफ़”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press