نیکی

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Persian

Etymology

Compound of (nik, “good”) +‎ (-i, nominalizing suffix)

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	nēkī
Dari reading^?	nēkī
Iranian reading^?	niki
Tajik reading^?	nekī

Noun


Iranian Persian	نیکی
Dari	نیکی
Tajik	неки

نیکی • (niki)

goodness, kindness, beneficience
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3691:
  در شب بد رنگ بس نیکی بود
  آب حیوان جفت تاریکی بود
  dar šab-i bad rang bas nēkī buwad
  āb-i haywan juft-i tārīkī buwad
  In the evil-coloured night there is much good:
  the Water of Life is the mate of darkness.
fairness, beauty

References

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

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (nēki, “goodness”)

Noun

نیکی • (nekī) f (Hindi spelling नेकी)

virtue, goodness

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu نیکی (nekī).

Noun

نیکی (nekī)

goodness, virtue

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