نصیب

See also: نصيب

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَصِيب (naṣīb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [na.ˈsiːβ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nä.síːb]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nä.síːb]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nä.síːb]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nä.síb̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næ.síːb̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nä.síb]

Readings
Classical reading?	nasīḇ
Dari reading?	nasīb
Iranian reading?	nasib
Tajik reading?	nasib

Noun

Dari	نصیب
Iranian Persian
Tajik	насиб

نصیب • (nasib) (plural نصیب‌ها (nasib-hâ))

1. part, portion, share

   Synonyms: بخش (baxš), قسمت (qesmat)

2. destiny, fortune, lot

   Synonym: سرنوشت (sarnevešt)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 113:

     بهبود چون طمع کنم و روز دلخوشی
     از بخت و طالعی که نباشد مرا نصیب

     bihbūd čūn tama' kunam u rōz-i dilxwašī
     az baxt u tāli'ē ki nabāšad ma-rā nasīb

     How can I seek happiness and a day to be cheerful
     From that fortune and fate which are not my lot?

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نصیب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نصیب (“portion, share, lot”), from Arabic نَصِيب (naṣīb).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nə.siːb/
• Rhymes: -iːb

Noun

نَصِیب • (naṣīb) m (Hindi spelling नसीब)

1. fortune, destiny (see lot)

   Synonym: قسمت (qismat)

Declension

Declension of نصیب
	singular	plural
direct	نصیب (naṣīb)	نصیب (naṣīb)
oblique	نصیب (naṣīb)	نصیبوں (naṣībõ)
vocative	نصیب (naṣīb)	نصیبو (naṣībo)

Derived terms

• خوشنصیب (xūšnasīb, “fortunate”)
• بدنصیبی (badnasībī, “misfortune”)

References

• “نصیب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “نصیب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.