نرگس
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نرگس
Chagatai
Etymology
Noun
نرگس (transliteration needed)
Related terms
Descendants
Persian
Alternative forms
- نرجس (narjes) (via Arabic)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Persian (nlgs /nargis/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | nargis |
| Dari reading? | nargis |
| Iranian reading? | naɾɡʲes |
| Tajik reading? | nargis |
Noun
| Dari | نرگس |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | наргис |
نرگس • (narges) (plural نرگس‌ها (narges-hâ))
- narcissus
- 1003-1077, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama
- چون از آن جا گذشتیم، به صحرایی رسیدیم که همه نرگس بود شکفته، چنان که تمامتِ آن صحرا سپید می‌نمود از بسیاریِ نرگس‌ها.
- When we passed from that place, we arrived at the field where all the narcissi were cheerful so that the entire field appeared white from the multitude of narcissi.
- 1003-1077, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama
- (poetic) the eye of a beauty, beloved, or mistress
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: nərgiz
- → Bashkir: нәркәс (nərkəs)
- → Bengali: নার্গিস (nargis)
- → Chagatai: نرگس
- → Georgian: ნარგიზი (nargizi)
- → Gujarati: નરગિસ (nargis)
- → Hindustani:
- → Kazakh: нәркес (närkes)
- → Middle Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիզ (narkiz), նարգէզ (nargēz), ներկիս (nerkis)
- Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիս (narkis) — Western Armenian, literary, նարկիզ (narkiz) — obsolete spelling
- → Malay: nargis
- → Ottoman Turkish: نرگس (nergis)
- Turkish: nergis
- → Punjabi:
- → Pashto: نرګس (nargis)
- → Sindhi:
- → Turkmen: nerkes
Proper noun
نرگس • (narges)
- a female given name, Narges, Nargess, or Nargis, from Middle Persian
Descendants
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نرگس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نرگس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).
Noun
نَرگِس • (nargis) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਰਗਿਸ)
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “نرگِس”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
Sindhi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).
Noun
نَرگِس • (nargasi) f (Devanagari नर्गसि)
Further reading
- Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “نرگس”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
- “نرگس”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), from Middle Persian (nlgs /nargis/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /nəɾ.ɡɪs/
Noun
نَرْگِس • (nargis) f (Hindi spelling नर्गिस)
- narcissus
- (metonymically) the eye of a mistress
Related terms
- نَرْگِسِ شَہْلا (nargis-i śahlā)
Further reading
- “نرگس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “نرگس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “نرگس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Ushojo
Etymology
Noun
نرگس (nargis)