نثر

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See also: نبر and نتر

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن ث ر (n ṯ r)
5 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

نَثَرَ (naṯara) I (non-past يَنْثُرُ (yanṯuru) or يَنْثِرُ (yanṯiru), verbal noun نَثْر (naṯr) or نِثَار (niṯār))

  1. to disperse, to dissipate, to scatter, to sprinkle, to ruffle, to fling
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Root
ن ث ر (n ṯ r)
5 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

نَثَّرَ (naṯṯara) II (non-past يُنَثِّرُ (yunaṯṯiru), verbal noun تَنْثِير (tanṯīr))

  1. to disperse, to dissipate, to scatter
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Root
ن ث ر (n ṯ r)
5 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

نَثْر (naṯrm

  1. verbal noun of نَثَرَ (naṯara) (form I)
  2. prose
    Antonyms: شِعْر (šiʕr), نَظْم (naẓm)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: nəsr
  • Ottoman Turkish: نثر (nesr)
  • Pashto: نثر (nasr)
  • Persian: نثر (nasr)
  • → Punjabi:
  • Sindhi: نثر
  • Swahili: nathari
  • Urdu: نثر (nasr)
  • Uzbek: nasr

Etymology 4

Verb

نَثُرْ (naṯur) (form I) /na.θur/

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of ثَارَ (ṯāra)

Etymology 5

Verb

نثر (form IV)

  1. نُثِرْ (nuṯir) /nu.θir/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَثَارَ (ʔaṯāra)
  2. نُثَرْ (nuṯar) /nu.θar/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَثَارَ (ʔaṯāra)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نثر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 238–239
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نثر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1247

Azerbaijani

Noun

نثر

  1. Arabic spelling of nəsr

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

نثر (nesr, vulg. nesir)

  1. prose

Descendants

Further reading

Pashto

Pashto Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ps

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

نَثْر (nasrm

  1. prose

Persian

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? nasr
Dari reading? nasr
Iranian reading? nasr
Tajik reading? nasr

Noun

Dari نثر
Iranian Persian
Tajik наср

نثر (nasr)

  1. prose
    Coordinate term: شعر (še'r, verse)
    تبدیل نظم به نثرtabdil-e nazm be nasrconversion of verse to prose
    • early 1000s, ʿUnṣurī, “Qaṣīda 7”, in دیوان عنصری:
      کمتر از نثر باشد آن نظمی
      که بر او مدح میر زیور نیست
      kamtar az nasr bāšad ān nazmē
      ki bar ō madh-i mīr zēwar nēst
      Worse than prose is the verse
      Which is not adorned with praise for the prince.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
    • c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:
      تا سواران نظم و نثر در میدان بلاغت درآیند و جولانهای غریب نمایند، چنانکه پیشینگان‌ را دست در خاک مالند []
      tā sawārān-i nazm u nasr dar maydān-i balāğat dar-āyand u jawalān-hā ğarīb namāyand, čunānki pēšēnagān rā dast dar xāk māland
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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

Punjabi

Western Panjabi Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pnb

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

نَثْر (nas̱rf (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਸਰ)

  1. prose

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

نَثَُرُ (nasauru? (Devanagari नसौरु)

  1. prose

Further reading

  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “نَثَُرُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • نثر”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 18661938

Urdu

Urdu Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ur

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Pronunciation

Noun

نثر (nasrf (Hindi spelling नस्र)

  1. prose