نرگس
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Chagatai
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]نرگس (transliteration needed)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Persian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- نرجس (narjes) (via Arabic)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nlgs /nargis/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [naɾ.ɡis]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [næɹˈɡʲes]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [näɾ.ɡis]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | nargis |
Dari reading? | nargis |
Iranian reading? | naɾɡʲes |
Tajik reading? | nargis |
Noun
[edit]Dari | نرگس |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | наргис |
نرگس • (narges) (plural نرگسها (narges-hâ))
- narcissus
- 1003-1077, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama
- چون از آن جا گذشتیم، به صحرایی رسیدیم که همه نرگس بود شکفته، چنان که تمامتِ آن صحرا سپید مینمود از بسیاریِ نرگسها.
- When we passed from that place, we arrived at the field where all the narcissi were cheerful so that the entire field appeared white from the multitude of narcissi.
- 1003-1077, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama
- (poetic) the eye of a beauty, beloved, or mistress
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Azerbaijani: nərgiz
- → Bashkir: нәркәс (nərkəs)
- → Bengali: নার্গিস (nargis)
- → Chagatai: نرگس
- → Georgian: ნარგიზი (nargizi)
- → Gujarati: નરગિસ (nargis)
- → Hindustani:
- → Kazakh: нәркес (närkes)
- → Middle Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիզ (narkiz), նարգէզ (nargēz), ներկիս (nerkis)
- Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիս (narkis) — Western Armenian, literary, նարկիզ (narkiz) — obsolete spelling
- → Malay: nargis
- → Ottoman Turkish: نرگس (nergis)
- Turkish: nergis
- → Punjabi:
- → Pashto: نرګس (nargis)
- → Sindhi:
- → Turkmen: nerkes
Proper noun
[edit]نرگس • (narges)
- a female given name, Narges, Nargess, or Nargis, from Middle Persian
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نرگس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نرگس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
Punjabi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).
Noun
[edit]نَرگِس • (nargis) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਰਗਿਸ)
Further reading
[edit]- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “نرگِس”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
Sindhi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).
Noun
[edit]نَرگِس • (nargasi) f (Devanagari नर्गसि)
Further reading
[edit]- Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “نرگس”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
- “نرگس”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian نَرْگِس (nargis).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /nəɾ.ɡɪs/
Proper noun
[edit]نَرْگِس • (nargis) f (Hindi spelling नरगिस)
- a female given name, Nargis, from Persian
Noun
[edit]نَرْگِس • (nargis) f (Hindi spelling नरगिस)
- narcissus
- (metonymically) the eye of a beloved
Declension
[edit]Declension of نرگس | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
direct | نَرْگِس (nargis) | نَرْگِسیں (nargisẽ) | ||||||
oblique | نَرْگِس (nargis) | نَرْگِسوں (nargisõ) | ||||||
vocative | نَرْگِس (nargis) | نَرْگِسو (nargiso) |
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
- نَرْگِسِ شَہْلا (nargis-i śahlā)
Further reading
[edit]- Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “نرگس”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
- “نرگس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- “نرگس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Ushojo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]نرگس (nargis)
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