नगर

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit नगर (nágara). Doublet of -नेर (-ner).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /nə.ɡəɾ/,

Noun

नगर • (nagar) m (Urdu spelling نگر)

1. city, town

   Synonym: शहर (śahar)

   तुम किस नगर से आए हो? ― tum kis nagar se āe ho? ― What city do you come from?

Declension

Marathi

Etymology

From Sanskrit नगर (nágara).

Noun

नगर • (nagar) n

1. city, town

References

• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “नगर”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press

Nepali

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit नगर (nagara).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Phonetic Devanagari: नगर्

Noun

नगर • (nagar)

1. city, town

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Phonetic Devanagari: न्a g्aर्a

Verb

नगर • (nagara)

1. inflection of गर्नु (garnu):
   1. stem
   2. second-person mid respect singular negative imperative

Newar

Etymology

From Sanskrit नगर (nagara).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

नगर • (nagara) ? (Newa Spelling 𑐣𑐐𑐬)

1. city, town

Old Gujarati

Etymology

From Sanskrit नगर (nagara).

Noun

नगर • (nagara) n

1. city

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Tedesco derives the word from a dissimilating Prakritization of an unattested compound *नृगर (*nṛgará, “gathering of men”), from नृ (nṛ) +‎ *गर (gara), the latter related to ग्राम (grāma, “village”) and Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (agorā́, “assembly”). It is likely the ultimate source of similar words in Dravidian; compare Old Tamil 𑀦𑀓𑀭𑁆 (nakar, “house, palace, temple, city”), Telugu నగరు (nagaru, “palace”) (although Mayrhofer doubts Tedesco's derivation and considers the word to be borrowed from Dravidian to Indo-Aryan). Southworth derives the word from Proto-South Dravidian *nakar.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /nɐ́.ɡɐ.ɾɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈn̪ɐ.ɡɐ.ɾɐ/

Noun

नगर • (nágara or nagará) stem, n

1. town, city
   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa 2.43.4:

     अथ स्म नगरे रामः चरन् भैक्षम् गृहे वसेत् ।
     काम कारः वरम् दातुम् अपि दासम् मम आत्मजम् ॥

     atha sma nagare rāmaḥ caran bhaikṣam gṛhe vaset .
     kāma kāraḥ varam dātum api dāsam mama ātmajam .

     • 2002 translation by K. M. K. Murthy

       Even giving my son to her as a slave would have been better. By that Rama would have at least stayed in the house by doing the work entrusted by her and roaming about in the city, asking alms.

Declension

Adjective

नगर • (nágara) stem

1. urban

Declension

Descendants

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “नगर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 525.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992–2001) “nágara-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 5