تصمیم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَصْمِيم (taṣmīm).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰäs.miːm]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t̪ʰäs.miːm]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t̪ʰäs.mim]

Readings
Classical reading? tasmīm
Dari reading? tasmīm
Iranian reading? tasmim
Tajik reading? tasmim

Noun

Dari تصمیم
Iranian Persian
Tajik тасмим

تَصمیم • (tasmim) (plural تَصمیمات (tasmimât) or تَصمیم‌ها (tasmim-hâ))

  1. decision, determination
    • 1980s, Qeysar Aminpour, translated by Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, in "'The Houses of the Tulips': Persian Poetry on the Fallen in the Iran–Iraq War (International Journal of Persian Literature, 2016), غزل تصمیم [Poem of Decision]:
      اگرچه نیت خوبیست زیستن اما
      خوشا که دست به تصمیم دیگری بزنیم
      agarče niyyat-e xubi-st zistan ammâ
      xošâ ke dast be tasmim-e digar-i be-zanim
      Although there’s virtue in wanting to live
      how pleasing it would be, to decide on something better.

Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تصمیم (tasmīm), from Arabic verbal noun تَصْمِيم (taṣmīm).

Noun

تصمیم • (tasmīm) f (Hindi spelling तसमीम)

  1. decision
  2. determination
  3. resolve
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