نزد

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See also: نرد

Arabic

Verb

نزد (form I)

  1. نَزِدْ (nazid) /na.zid/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of زَادَ (zāda)
  2. نُزَدْ (nuzad) /nu.zad/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of زَادَ (zāda)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian (nzd /⁠nazd⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *názdah. Compare also نزدیک (nazdik).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? nazd-i
Dari reading? nazd-i
Iranian reading? nazd-e
Tajik reading? nazd-i

Preposition

Dari نزد
Iranian Persian
Tajik назд

نزد (nazd-e) (literary)

  1. near, by, next to
  2. in the opinion of
    • 1611, ʿAbd al-Sattār ibn Qāsim Lāhōrī, مجالس جهانگیری [Majālis-i Jahāngīrī]:
      اگر بر تقدیر معقولیت میفرمایید پس باطلترین و نجسترین و گنده‌ترین دینها پیش من دین ایشان است بلكه دین هنود نزد من از دین ایشان بهتر!
      agar bar taqdīr-i ma'quliyat mē-farmāyēd pas bātiltarīn u najistarīn u gandatarīn-i dīn-hā pēš-i man dīn-i ēšān ast balki dīn-i hunūd nazd-i man az dīn-i ēšān bihtar!
      If you assess it based on plausibility, then my view is that the absurdest, the impurest, and the dirtiest of religions is theirs: in my opinion, the religion of the Hindus is better than theirs!

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: نزد

References