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Taṣwīr
(5,289 words)
(a.), verbal noun from the form II verb
ṣawwara “to form, fashion”, then “depict, represent, illustrate”. It is the principal term used in Arabic for both the representational arts including painting, drawing, sketching, engraving and photography (on which see 2. below) and the process of their creation. It is often contrasted to
timt̲h̲āl (sculpture) and synonymous with
ṣūra and the rarer
taṣwīra or their respective plural forms
ṣuwar and
taṣāwīr . Other synonyms of
taṣwīr widely used in Persian texts are
naḳs̲h̲ (A.) and
nigār (P.). Although in the usage…
