نقصان

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Arabic

Root
ن ق ص (n q ṣ)
5 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

نُقْصَان • (nuqṣān) m

  1. verbal noun of نَقَصَ (naqaṣa) (form I)
    • Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi :
      لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ إِذَا مَا تَمَّ نُقْصَانُ / فَلَا يُغَرَّ بِطِيبِ العَيْشِ إنْسَانُ
      likulli šayʔin ʔiḏā mā tamma nuqṣānu / falā yuḡarra biṭībi l-ʕayši ʔinsānu
  2. decrease, diminution
  3. loss, damage
  4. shortage

Declension

Declension of noun نُقْصَان (nuqṣān)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal نُقْصَان
nuqṣān 		النُّقْصَان
an-nuqṣān 		نُقْصَان
nuqṣān
Nominative نُقْصَانٌ
nuqṣānun 		النُّقْصَانُ
an-nuqṣānu 		نُقْصَانُ
nuqṣānu
Accusative نُقْصَانًا
nuqṣānan 		النُّقْصَانَ
an-nuqṣāna 		نُقْصَانَ
nuqṣāna
Genitive نُقْصَانٍ
nuqṣānin 		النُّقْصَانِ
an-nuqṣāni 		نُقْصَانِ
nuqṣāni

Descendants

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْصَان (nuqṣān)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? nuqsān
Dari reading? nuqsān
Iranian reading? noğsân
Tajik reading? nuqson

Noun

Dari نقصان
Iranian Persian
Tajik нуқсон

نقصان • (noqsân)

  1. deficiency, loss, decrease, shortage

References

Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic نُقْصَان (nuqṣān).

Pronunciation

Noun

نُقْصان • (nuqsān) m (Hindi spelling नुक़सान)

  1. loss, harm, harmful
  2. disadvantage, drawback, downside

References

  • Platts, John T. (1884) “نقصان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “نقصان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • “نقصان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نقصان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • “نقصان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “نقصان”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu نقصان (nuqsān), from Arabic نُقْصَان (nuqṣān).

Noun

نقصان (nuqsān)

  1. loss, harm, harmful
  2. disadvantage, drawback, downside
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