tasavvur
Tasavvur is a noun used in Persian, Turkish, Urdu, and other languages to denote a mental image, conception, or imagination. It derives from the Arabic word tasawwur (تصور), formed from a root associated with forming or shaping, and has circulated through Persian and Turkish via literary and scholarly contact.
The term covers a range of meanings: the act of imagining or forming a mental image; the
In scholarly usage, especially within Islamic philosophy and theology, tasavvur is used to describe how the
In modern Turkish, Persian, and Urdu, tasavvur remains common for both imaginative possibilities and cognitive concepts,