Arabic

Verb

تَصَوَّرَ • ‎(taṣawwara) V, non-past يَتَصَوَّرُ‎ (yataṣawwaru)

1. to be or become formed, fashioned, figured, shaped, sculptured, pictured, portrayed, photographed
2. to imagine, to conceive (something)
3. (ditransitive) to think (something, someone) to be (something, someone)
4. to appear in one's mind as an image
5. to seem (لِ ‎(li) someone)
6. to fall (as a result of being struck)

Conjugation

References

• “صور” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• “تصور” in John Mace (2007), Arabic Verbs, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., ISBN 0-7818-1229-1
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “صور”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4

Etymology 2

Noun

تَصَوُّر • ‎(taṣawwur) m ‎(plural تَصَوُّرَات ‎(taṣawwurāt))

1. verbal noun of تَصَوَّرَ ‎(taṣawwara) (form V)
2. imagination
3. idea, concept
4. conception

Declension

Derived terms

• قَابِل لِلتَّصَوُّر ‎(qābil li-t-taṣawwur, “imaginable”)
• غَيْر قَابِل لِلتَّصَوُّر ‎(gayr qābil li-t-taṣawwur, “unimaginable”)
• ضَعِيف اَلتَّصَوُّر ‎(ḍaʿīf at-taṣawwur, “unimaginative”)

References

• “تصور” in John Mace (2007), Arabic Verbs, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., ISBN 0-7818-1229-1
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “صور”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4

Etymology 3

Verb

تُصَوِّرُ • ‎(tuṣawwiru) ‎(form II)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)

Verb

تُصَوِّرَ • ‎(tuṣawwira) ‎(form II)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)

Verb

تُصَوِّرْ • ‎(tuṣawwir) ‎(form II)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)

Verb

تُصَوَّرُ • ‎(tuṣawwaru) ‎(form II)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive indicative of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive indicative of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)

Verb

تُصَوَّرَ • ‎(tuṣawwara) ‎(form II)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive subjunctive of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)

Verb

تُصَوَّرْ • ‎(tuṣawwar) ‎(form II)

1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)
2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive of صَوَّرَ ‎(ṣawwara)