تصمیم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَصْمِيم (taṣmīm).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tas.miːm]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäs.miːm]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæs.miːm]

• (Tajik, formal) 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

• تَصمیم داشتَن (tasmim dâštan)
• تَصمیم گِرِفتَن (tasmim gereftan)

 

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