نقره

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْرَة (nuqra). From Sogdian [script needed] (n'krtk-w /⁠nākarta⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [nuq.ˈɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nʊq.ɾǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nʊq.ɾǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nʊq.ɾǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nuq.ɾǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [noʁ.ɹé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nuq.ɾǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	nuqra
Dari reading?	nuqra
Iranian reading?	noğre
Tajik reading?	nuqra

Noun

Dari	نقره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	нуқра

نُقره • (noqre)

1. silver (metal)

   Synonym: (literary) سیم (sim)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 178:

     زر و نقره گر نبودندی نهان / پرورش کی یافتندی زیر کان

     zar o noqre gar na-budandi nehân / parvareš key yâftandi zir-e kân

     If gold and silver were not hidden, how would they get nourishment [grow and ripen] in the mine?

Derived terms

• نقره‌ای (noqre-i)

See also

• برنز (boronz, “bronze”)
• طلا (talâ, “gold”)

 

References

• ↑ Gharib, B. (1995), “n'krtk-(w)”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 231