tahrir

• tahreer

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

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /tah.ɾiɾ/

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

• tahriren (“in writing”)
• tahrirî (“written”)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تحریر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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