Arabic edit

Root
ن ش ر (n-š-r)

Etymology edit

Derived from the passive participle of the verb نَشَرَ (našara).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

مَنْشُور (manšūr) (feminine مَنْشُورَة (manšūra), masculine plural مَنْشُورُونَ (manšūrūna), feminine plural مَنْشُورَات (manšūrāt))

  1. passive participle of نَشَرَ (našara)
    1. published, issued, announced
      1. (Internet) posted (on facebook, etc)
    2. sawn

Declension edit

Noun edit

مَنْشُور (manšūrm (plural مَنَاشِير (manāšīr) or مَنْشُورَات (manšūrāt))

  1. publication, pamphlet, charter
  2. (politics) manifesto
  3. (geometry) prism
  4. (Internet) a post (on facebook, etc)

Declension edit

Descendants edit

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

First attested in c. 1684 as Middle Hindi منشور (manśūr), borrowed from Classical Persian مَنْشُور (manšūr), from Arabic مَنْشُور (manšūr).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

مَنْشُور (manśūrm (Hindi spelling मंशूर)

  1. (politics) a manifesto
  2. diploma; patent
  3. constitution; regulation; law
  4. (historical) proclamation; charter; royal ordinance
  5. (geometry) a prism

Declension edit

Declension of منشور
singular plural
direct مَنْشُور (manśūr) مَنْشُور (manśūr)
oblique مَنْشُور (manśūr) مَنْشُوروں (manśūrō̃)
vocative مَنْشُور (manśūr) مَنْشُورو (manśūrō)

Adjective edit

مَنْشُور (manśūr) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मंशूर)

  1. divulged; published (ie. as a book)
  2. dispersed; scattered
  3. diffused

Further reading edit

  • منشور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • منشور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “منشور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “منشور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “منشور”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1123
  • John Shakespear (1834) “منشور”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC