tafsir

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَفْسِير (tafsīr, “interpretation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæfsɪər/, /ˈtɑːfsɪər/

Noun

tafsir (countable and uncountable, plural tafsirs or tafsir or tafasir)

1. (Islam) Grammatical, historical, allegorical or traditional interpretations of the Qur'an.

Related terms

• mufassir

Translations

interpretation of the Qur'an

• Albanian: tefsir m
• Arabic: تَفْسِير m (tafsīr)
• Azerbaijani: təfsir (az)
• Bengali: তফসীর (tôfsīr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: tafsir
• French: tafsir (fr) m
• Georgian: თაფსირი (tapsiri)
• German: Tafsir m, Tafsīr m (direct transcription from Arabic), Tefsir m
• Hindi: तफ़सीर (tafsīr), तफसीर (hi) f (taphsīr), तफ्सीर (hi) f (taphsīr)
• Japanese: タフスィール (tafusīru), タフシール (tafushīru)
• Kazakh: тәпсір (täpsır)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tefsîr (ku)

• Kyrgyz: тапсир (tapsir)
• Malay: tafsir (ms)
• Pashto: تفسير (ps) m (tafsír)
• Persian: تفسیر (fa) (tafsir)
• Russian: тафси́р m (tafsír)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тефсир m

  Roman: tefsir (sh) m

• Tajik: тафсир (tg) (tafsir)
• Tatar: тәфсир (tt) (täfsir)
• Turkish: tefsir (tr)
• Turkmen: tefsir
• Urdu: تفسیر (tafsīr)
• Uyghur: تەپسىر (tepsir)
• Uzbek: tafsir (uz)

Anagrams

• ftiras, Safrit, afrits, iftars, fraist

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tafsir, from Arabic تَفْسِير (tafsīr, “interpretation”).

• Displaced Dutch uitleg (“explanation”) by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtafsɪr/
• Rhymes: -sɪr, -ɪr, -r
• Hyphenation: taf‧sir

Noun

tafsir (plural tafsir-tafsir, first-person possessive tafsirku, second-person possessive tafsirmu, third-person possessive tafsirnya)

1. commentary,
2. interpretation,

   Synonym: interpretasi

3. exegesis,
4. explanation

   Synonyms: keterangan, penjelasan

5. (Islam) tafsir: Grammatical, historical, allegorical or traditional interpretations of the Qur'an.

Derived terms

• ditafsir
• ditafsirkan
• menafsir
• menafsirkan
• penafsir
• penafsiran
• tafsiran

 

• tafsir harfiah
• tafsir mimpi

 

Further reading

• “tafsir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.