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नब्ज़

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See also: नब्ज

Hindi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian نَبْض (nabz), from Arabic نَبْض (nabḍ).[1] First attested in c. 1739[2] as Middle Hindi نبض (nbẓ /⁠nabz⁠/).

Pronunciation

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  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /nəbz/, [nɐbz], /nəbd͡ʒ/, [nɐbd͡ʒ]
  • Rhymes: -əbz
  • Hyphenation: नब्ज़

Noun

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नब्ज़ • (nabz) f (Urdu spelling نَبْض)[3][4]

  1. pulse, heartbeat
    Synonym: नाड़ी (nāṛī)
    मरीज़ की नब्ज़ काफ़ी तेज़ है।
    marīz kī nabz kāfī tez hai.
    The patient's heartbeat is quite fast.
    • 2015, 0:00 from the start, in रज़िया सुल्तान (धारावाहिक) [raziyā sultān (dhārāvāhik), Razia Sultan (TV series)], episode 1 (television production), spoken by सूत्रधार [sūtradhār] (Shah Rukh Khan), via &TV:
      हिंदुस्तान का दिल दिल्ली। और इस दिल की एक नब्ज़ है, क़ुतुब मीनार। देखा है जिसने कई तख़्तोताज आबाद होते और कितनी ही सल्तनतों को बरबाद होते।
      hindustān kā dil dillī. aur is dil kī ek nabz hai, qutub mīnār. dekhā hai jisne kaī taxtotāj ābād hote aur kitnī hī saltantõ ko barbād hote.
      [This is] the heart of India, Delhi. And this heart has a pulse, Qutb Minar. It has witnessed the flourishing of several kingdoms and also the demise of many sultanates.

Declension

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Declension of नब्ज़ (fem cons-stem)
singular plural
direct नब्ज़
nabz 		नब्ज़ें
nabzẽ
oblique नब्ज़
nabz 		नब्ज़ों
nabzõ
vocative नब्ज़
nabz 		नब्ज़ो
nabzo

References

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More information
  1. ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “nabz”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 618.
  2. ^ “نبض”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  3. ^ Bahri, Hardev (1989) “नब्ज़”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons, page 336.
  4. ^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “नबज़”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 543

Further reading

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  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نبض”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 637
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