tahrir

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian تحریر (tahrir), from Arabic تَحْرِير (taḥrīr, liberation; release).

Noun

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tahrir (plural tahrirs)

  1. (music) a type of vocal ornamentation; especially the variant used in the Near and Middle East
    • 2009, Owen Wright, Touraj Kiaras, Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music: An Analytical Perspective, page 103:
      Karimi includes an extensive tahrir within the final syllable of the verse ...
    • 2012, Lloyd Miller, Music and Song in Persia (RLE Iran B): The Art of Avaz, page 109:
      But it should be emphasized that Iran and Azerbāijān, which partake of the same musical culture, have the most intricate and highly elaborate form of tahrir in the world.

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish تحریر (tahrir), from Arabic تَحْرِير (taḥrīr), verbal noun of حَرَّرَ (ḥarrara).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tahrir (definite accusative tahriri, plural tahrirler)

  1. writing (act of writing); writing (something written)
  2. registering, registration
  3. (historical) Ottoman land registers and tax rolls
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References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تحریر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 348
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tahrir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN