nîşan

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Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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Compare Persian نشان (nešân), Middle Persian [script needed] (nyšʾn' /⁠nīšān⁠/, sign, mark, banner), Manichaean Middle Persian [script needed] (nyšʾn /⁠nīšān⁠/), Old Armenian loanword from Persian նշան (nšan). Compare Old Armenian նիշ (niš), Classical Syriac ܢܝܫܐ (nīšāʾ), Hebrew נֵס (nēs), loanwords from Iranian.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nîşan f (Arabic spelling نیشان)

  1. sign, mark, symbol

Declension

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Derived terms

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