نگار

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Persian

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Etymology

From the verb.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? nigār
Dari reading? nigār
Iranian reading? negâr
Tajik reading? nigor

Verb

نگار • (negâr)

  1. present stem of نگاشتن (negâštan)

Noun

نگار • (negâr)

  1. painting, picture
    Synonyms: نگاره (negâre), نقش و نگار (naqš-o-negâr)
  2. (poetic) beautiful person, the beloved
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 82:
      با تو‌ام در دوستیها اعتقاد دیگرست
      گرچه بس عاشق شدم بر هر نگار سیم تن
      bā tō-am dar dōstīhā i'tiqād-i dīgar ast
      garči bas āšiq šudam bar har nigār-i sēm tan
      I have a different sort of confidence in my love with you,
      Though I have oft fallen in love with each silver-bodied beauty.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  3. henna

Derived terms

Proper noun

نگار • (negâr)

  1. a female given name, Negar

References

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نگار (nigār).

Noun

نگار • (nigār) m (Hindi spelling निगार)

  1. sweetheart
  2. writer
  3. painting, portrait, picture
    Synonym: تصویر (tasvīr)

References

  • John Shakespear (1834) “نگار”, 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
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “نگار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نگار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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