different between allegorical vs tafsir

English

allegorical (comparative more allegorical, superlative most allegorical)

of, relating to, or containing allegory
- c. 1717, Alexander Pope, remarks on Thomas Parnell's Battle of the Frogs and Mice
  An allegorical application.
- 1861, Friedrich Max Müller, Lectures on the Science of Language
  Allegorical being […] that kind of language which says one thing, but means another.

Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (tafs?r, “interpretation”).

tafsir (countable and uncountable, plural tafsirs or tafsir or tafasir)

(Islam) Grammatical, historical, allegorical or traditional interpretations of the Qur'an.

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