# منشور
## Arabic

* Root
* ن ش ر (n š r)
* 9 terms

### Etymology

Derived from the passive participle of the verb نَشَرَ (našara).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /man.ʃuːr/
* Rhymes: -uːr

### Adjective

مَنْشُور • (manšūr) (feminine مَنْشُورَة (manšūra), masculine plural مَنْشُورُونَ (manšūrūna), feminine plural مَنْشُورَات (manšūrāt))
* passive participle of نَشَرَ (našara)
** published, issued, announced
*** (Internet) posted (on facebook, etc)
** sawn

#### Declension
### Noun

مَنْشُور • (manšūr) m (plural مَنَاشِير (manāšīr) or مَنْشُورَات (manšūrāt))
* publication, pamphlet, charter
* (politics) manifesto
* (geometry) prism
* (Internet) a post (on facebook, etc)

#### Declension
### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: մանշուր (manšur)
* → Azerbaijani: mənşur
* → Ottoman Turkish: منشور (menşûr)
** Turkish: menşur
* → Classical Persian: مَنْشُور (manšūr)
** → Urdu: مَنْشُور (manśūr)
* → Uzbek: manshur

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْشُور (manšūr).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [man.ˈʃuːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [män.ʃúːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [män.ʃúːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [män.ʃúːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [män.ʃúɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mæn.ʃúːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [män.ʃúɾ]

### Noun

منشور • (manšur)
* prism
* charter
* (historical) royal writ of appointment or charter
** c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 219:مده پند من از عشق بتان ناصح چون ممکن نیست که تا ندهند با من عاشقان منشور بنشینمmadih pand-i man az išq-i butān nāsih čūn mumkin nēst ki tā na-dihand bā man āšiqān manšūr binšīnamCouncillor! Do not advise me about the love for beauties, for it is not possible For me to sit down until the lovers give me their royal writ.(Classical Persian transliteration)

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “منشور”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَنْشُور (manšūr), from Arabic مَنْشُور (manšūr). First attested in c. 1684 as Middle Hindi منشور (mnśvr⁩ /⁠manśūr⁠/).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /mən.ʃuːɾ/
* Rhymes: -uːɾ
* Hyphenation: مَنْ‧شُور

### Noun

مَنْشُور • (manśūr) m (Hindi spelling मंशूर)
* (politics) a manifesto
* diploma; patent
* constitution; regulation; law
* (historical) proclamation; charter; royal ordinance
* (geometry) a prism

#### Declension

Declension of منشور :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | مَنْشُور (manśūr) | مَنْشُور (manśūr) |
| oblique | مَنْشُور (manśūr) | مَنْشُوروں (manśūrõ) |
| vocative | مَنْشُور (manśūr) | مَنْشُورو (manśūro) |

### Adjective

مَنْشُور • (manśūr) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मंशूर)
* divulged; published (ie. as a book)
* dispersed; scattered
* diffused

### References

* ↑ Platts, John T. (1884) “منشور”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* ↑ John Shakespear (1834) “منشور”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
* ↑ “منشور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

### Further reading

* “منشور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “منشور”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]