نزار

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Arabic

Verb

نزار (form I)

  1. نُزَارُ (nuzāru) /nu.zaː.ru/: first-person plural non-past passive indicative of زَارَ (zāra)
  2. نُزَارَ (nuzāra) /nu.zaː.ra/: first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive of زَارَ (zāra)

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian (nzʾl /⁠nizār⁠/).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? nizār
Dari reading? nizār
Iranian reading? nezâr
Tajik reading? nizor

Adjective

نزار (nezâr)

  1. feeble, haggard, thin
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 416”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
      به یاد شخص نزارم که غرق خون دل است
      هلال را ز کنار افق کنید نگاه
      ba yād-i šaxs-i nizār-am ki ğarq-i xūn-i dil ast
      halāl rā zi kanār-i ufuq kunēd nigāh
      Remembering my frail body drowned in my heart's blood,
      Look at the crescent on the side of the horizon.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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