-ism in Persian
ـیسم -ism
/-ɪz(ə)m/
-ism in Persian: ـیسم (-ism), گرایی (gerâi), پرستی (parasti). In English, -ism means used to form nouns of action, process, or result based on the accompanying verb ending in -ise or -ize.
Persian words for -ism
- a principle, belief or movement
- ـیسم -ism, گرایی gerâi, پرستی parasti
English meaning of -ism
- suffix Used to form nouns of action, process, or result based on the accompanying verb ending in -ise or -ize.
- suffix Used to form the name of a school of thought, system, or theory based on the name of its subject or object or alternatively on the name of its founder (When de-capitalized, these overlap with the generic "doctrines" sense below, e.g. Liberalism vs. liberalism.).
- suffix Used to form names of a tendency of action, behaviour, condition, opinion, or state belonging to a class or group of persons, or the result of a doctrine, ideology, or principle or lack thereof.
- suffix Used to form countable nouns indicating a peculiarity or characteristic of language.
-ism in a sentence
- baptism (1300), aphorism (1528), criticism (1607), magnetism (1616)
- Lutheranism (1560), Calvinism (1570), Protestantism (1606), Congregationalism (1716), Mohammedanism (1815),: Palamism (1949)
- Atticism (1612), Gallicism (1656), archaism (1709), Americanism (1781), colloquialism (1834), newspaperism (1838), Shakespearianism (1886)
-ism in other languages
Questions about -ism in Persian
- What is the meaning of -ism in Persian?
- -ism in Persian is ـیسم (-ism), گرایی (gerâi), پرستی (parasti).
- معنی -ism چیست؟
- -ism: ـیسم (-ism), گرایی (gerâi), پرستی (parasti).
- What does -ism mean in English?
- -ism means used to form nouns of action, process, or result based on the accompanying verb ending in -ise or -ize.
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