تمیز

تميّز • (tamayyiz) V (non-past يتميّز (yitmayyiz))

1. to be distinguished, to be characterised

   مناخ مصر بيتميز بالتنوع الكبير.

   Egypt's climate is characterised by its diversity.

Borrowed from Persian تمیز (tamiz), from Arabic تَمْيِيز (tamyīz).

تمیز • (temiz)

1. pure, clean, free of flaws or imperfections

   Synonyms: آری (arı), پاك (pak), خالص (halis), صفی (safi)

2. honest, honorable, respectable, estimable

• Turkish: temiz
• → Serbo-Croatian: tèmiz / тѐмиз

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “temiz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4722
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تمیز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 404
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Purus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1410
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تمیز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1404
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “temiz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تمیز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 595

Borrowed from Arabic تَمْيِيز (tamyīz).

تمیز • (tamiz) (comparative تمیزتَر (tamiz-tar), superlative تمیزتَرین (tamiz-tarin))

1. clean, neat, tidy

   Antonym: کثیف (kasif)

2. properly done

• تمیز کردن (tamiz kardan, “to clean”)
• تمیزی (tamizi)

• → Bengali: তমিজ (tômiz)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तमीज़ (tamīz)

  Urdu: تمیز (tamīz)

• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਤਮੀਜ਼ (tamīz)
  • Shahmukhi script: تمیز (tamīz)

تمیز • (tamiz)

1. discernment; discrimination between things

Borrowed from Classical Persian تمیز (tamīz), itself from Arabic تَمْيِيز (tamyīz).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ə.miːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz

تَمِیز • (tamīz) f (Hindi spelling तमीज़)

1. manners, etiquette
2. respect

• بَدتَمِیز (bad tamīz, “rude; ill-mannered”)
• بَدتَمِیزی (bad tamīzī, “disrespect”)

• “تمیز”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “تمیز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.