انتظار

Arabic

Noun

اِنْتِظَار • (intiẓār) m

verbal noun of اِنْتَظَرَ‎ (intaẓara) (form VIII)

Declension

Declension of noun اِنْتِظَار (intiẓār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	اِنْتِظَار intiẓār	الِانْتِظَار‎ al-intiẓār	اِنْتِظَار intiẓār
Nominative	اِنْتِظَارٌ intiẓārun	الِانْتِظَارُ‎ al-intiẓāru	اِنْتِظَارُ intiẓāru
Accusative	اِنْتِظَارًا‎ intiẓāran	الِانْتِظَارَ‎ al-intiẓāra	اِنْتِظَارَ intiẓāra
Genitive	اِنْتِظَارٍ intiẓārin	الِانْتِظَارِ‎ al-intiẓāri	اِنْتِظَارِ intiẓāri

Descendants

Gulf Arabic: انتظار‎ (intiḏ̣ār)
→ Azerbaijani: intizar
→ Bengali: এন্তেজার (entezar)
Hindustani:
→ Hindi: इंतज़ार (intazār)

→ Urdu: انتظار‎ (intizār)
→ Ottoman Turkish: انتظار‎ (intizar)
- Turkish: intizar
→ Persian: انتظار‎ (entezâr)

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic اِنْتِظَار‎ (intiẓār).

Pronunciation

(Dari) IPA^(key): [ʔɪntəˈzɒːɾ]
(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔenteˈzɒːɾ]
Rhymes: -âr

Noun

Iranian Persian	انتظار
Dari	انتظار
Tajik	интизор (intizor)

اِنتِظار • (entezâr) (plural اِنتِظارات‎ (entezârât))

wait, waiting
Synonym: صبر کردن‎ (sabr kardan)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3294:
  ‏قلب پهلو می‌زند با زر به شب / انتظار روز می‌دارد ذهب‌‎
  qalb pahlu mi-zanad bâ zar be šab / entezâr-e ruz mi-dârad zahab
  At night the false coin jostles [in rivalry] with the gold: the gold is waiting for day.
expectation
Synonym: توقع‎ (tavaqqo')
anticipation, expectancy, hope

Derived terms

انتظار داشتن‎ (entezâr dâštan, “to expect”)
انتظار کشیدن‎ (entezâr kešidan, “to wait; to anticipate”)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ‎ (intizār), from Arabic اِنْتِظَار‎ (intiẓār).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪn.t̪ɪ.zɑːɾ/

(Deccani) IPA^(key): /ɪn.t̪ɪ.zɑːɾ/
Audio (PK) (file)
(colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɪn.t̪ə.zɑːɾ/, /ɪn.t̪e.zɑːɾ/
Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

Noun

اِنْتِظار • (intiz̤ār) m (Hindi spelling इंतिज़ार)

wait, waiting
expectation; expectancy

Related terms

مُنْتَظِر‎ (muntaz̤ir, “expectant”)

References

“انتظار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“انتظار”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

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