Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
ن ظ ر (n ẓ r)
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Derived from the active participle of نَظَرَ (naẓara).

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Participle

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نَاظِر (nāẓir) (form I, feminine نَاظِرَة (nāẓira), masculine plural نَاظِرُونَ (nāẓirūna) or نُظَّار (nuẓẓār), feminine plural نَاظِرَات (nāẓirāt) or نَوَاظِرُ (nawāẓiru))

  1. active participle of نَظَرَ (naẓara)
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Noun

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نَاظِر (nāẓirm (plural نُظَّار (nuẓẓār) or نَاظِرُونَ (nāẓirūna), feminine نَاظِرَة (nāẓira))

  1. observer, viewer, spectator, onlooker
  2. supervisor
  3. inspector
  4. manager, director, superintendent, administrator, chief; (education) principal, headmaster (of a school)
  5. (politics, obsolete) minister
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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نَاظِر (nāẓirm (plural نَوَاظِر (nawāẓir))

  1. eye
    Synonym: نَاظِرَة (nāẓira)
  2. corner of the eye next to the nose
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Verb

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نَاظَرَ (nāẓara) III, non-past يُنَاظِرُ‎ (yunāẓiru)

  1. (transitive) to debate
  2. (transitive) to equal, to correspond to
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References

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  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نظر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic نَاظِر (nāẓir).

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Readings
Classical reading? nāzir
Dari reading? nāzir
Iranian reading? nâzer
Tajik reading? nozir

Noun

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ناظر (nâzer)

  1. watcher, supervisor, observer
    • 2024 May 28, “تانک‌های اسرائیل به مرکز شهر رفح رسیدند”, in bbc.com/persian[1], BBC Persian:
      این حمله هوایی اسرائیل را سازمان ملل، اتحادیه اروپا، کشورهای عربی و نهادهای ناظر بر حقوق بشر یکی پس از دیگر محکوم کردند.
      in hamle-ye havâyi-ye esrâ'il râ sâzmân-e melal, ettehâdiye-ye orupâ, kešvar-hâ-ye arabi va nahâd-hâ-ye nâzer bar hoquq-e bašar yeki pas az digar mahkum kardand.
      One after the other, the United Nations, the European Union, Arab countries, and human rights monitoring institutions condemned this air strike by Israel.

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Urdu

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Adjective

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ناظر (nāzir) (Hindi spelling नाज़िर)

  1. omniscient
  2. seeing
  3. looking
  4. inspecting

Noun

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ناظر (nāzirm (Hindi spelling नाज़िर)

  1. watcher
  2. viewer
  3. supervisor
  4. superintendent
  5. inspector
  6. observer
  7. spectator
  8. bailiff
  9. overseer
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