منظر

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Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
ن ظ ر (n ẓ r)
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Verbal noun and noun of place from the verb نَظَرَ (naẓara, to perceive with the eyes).

Noun

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مَنْظَر (manẓarm (plural مَنَاظِر (manāẓir))

  1. verbal noun of نَظَرَ (naẓara) (form I)
  2. sight
  3. view, panorama
    هَذَا الْمَنْظَرُ جَمِيلٌ جِدًا فِي غُرُوبِ الشَّمْسِ.
    haḏā l-manẓaru jamīlun jidan fī ḡurūbi š-šamsi.
    This view is very beautiful at sunset.
  4. looks, appearance, aspect
  5. prospect, outlook, perspective
  6. (photography) object
  7. scene (of a play)
  8. spectacle
  9. stage setting, set, scenery
  10. lookout, watchtower
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Descendants
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  • Ottoman Turkish: منظر (manzar)

Etymology 2

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Root
ن ظ ر (n ẓ r)
15 terms

Tool noun from the verb نَظَرَ (naẓara, to perceive with the eyes).

Noun

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مِنْظَر (minẓarm

  1. pair of eyeglasses, spectacles
  2. telescope
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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مَنْظَر (manẓar)

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? manzar
Dari reading? manzar
Iranian reading? manzar
Tajik reading? manzar
Dari منظر
Iranian Persian
Tajik манзар

Noun

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منظر (manzar) (plural مناظر (manâzer))

  1. aspect, look, appearance
  2. sight, view
  3. perspective
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3766:
      هر هوا و ذره‌‌ای خود منظری است
      ناگشاده کی گود کانجا دری است
      har hawā u zarra-i xwad manzar-ē-st
      nā-gušāda kī guwad kānjā dar-ē-st
      Every air and mote is indeed a place for vision (of God),
      (but so long as it is) unopened, who says “Yonder is a door”?

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian مَنْظَر (manzar), from Arabic مَنْظَر (manẓar).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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مَنْظَر (manzarm (formal plural مناظر, Hindi spelling मंज़र)

  1. sight; view; scene
  2. the horizon
  3. the eye; pupil
  4. (figuratively) exhibition (of some kind)

Declension

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    Declension of منظر
singular plural
direct مَنْظَر (manz̤ar) مَنْظَر (manz̤ar)
oblique مَنْظَر (manz̤ar) مَنْظَروں (manz̤arõ)
vocative مَنْظَر (manz̤ar) مَنْظَرو (manz̤aro)

Further reading

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  • منظر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • منظر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “منظر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.