نسل

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See also: نشل, and ن ش ل

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن س ل (n s l)
1 term

Pronunciation

Verb

نَسَلَ (nasala) I (non-past يَنْسُلُ (yansulu), verbal noun نَسْل (nasl))

  1. to beget, to sire, to father, to procreate
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Root
ن س ل (n s l)
1 term

Pronunciation

Noun

نَسْل (naslm (plural أَنْسَال (ʔansāl))

  1. verbal noun of نَسَلَ (nasala) (form I)
  2. progeny, offspring
Declension
Descendants

Etymology 3

Verb

نسل (form I)

  1. نَسَلْ (nasal) /na.sal/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of سَأَلَ (saʔala)
  2. نُسَلْ (nusal) /nu.sal/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of سَأَلَ (saʔala)

Etymology 4

Verb

نسل (form I)

  1. نَسِلْ (nasil) /na.sil/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of سَالَ (sāla)
  2. نَسَلْ (nasal) /na.sal/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of سَالَ (sāla)
  3. نُسَلْ (nusal) /nu.sal/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of سَالَ (sāla)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl, progeny, offspring).

Noun

نسل (nesl) (plural انسال (ensal))

  1. lineage, ancestry, stock, descent, the descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage
    Synonyms: ذریت (zürriyet), صوی (soy)
  2. race, breed, strain, a group of people distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics
    Synonyms: صوپ (sop), صوی (soy)
  3. offspring, progeny, issue, any of a person's descendants, including of further generations
    Synonym: ذریت (zürriyet)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Noun

نسل (naslm

  1. generation

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? nasl
Dari reading? nasl
Iranian reading? nasl
Tajik reading? nasl

Noun

Dari نسل
Iranian Persian
Tajik насл

نسل (nasl) (plural نسل‌ها (nasl-hâ))

  1. generation
    نسل‌های بعدیnasl-hâ-ye ba'dilater generations
  2. race, kind
    نسل بشرnasl-e bašarthe human race
  3. offspring; progeny
    • late 1300s, Hafez, Poetic fragment of a panegyric attributed to Hafez:
      سال و فال و مال و حال و اصل و نسل و تخت و بخت
      بادت اندر شهریاری، برقرار و بر دوام
      سال خرّم، فال نیکو، مال وافر، حال خوش
      اصل ثابت، نسل باقی، تخت عالی، بخت رام
      sāl u fāl u māl u hāl u asl u nasl u taxt u baxt
      bād-at andar šahryārī, bar qarār u bar dawām
      sāl-i xurram, fāl-i nēkū, māl-i wāfir, hāl-i xwaš,
      asl-i sābit, nasl-i bāqī, taxt-i ālī, baxt-i rām
      Years, fate, property, condition, ancestry, progeny, throne, destiny
      May you have in your regal status, stable and eternal;
      Joyful years, a fortunate fate, abundant property, a happy condition,
      Steadfast ancestry, durable progeny, a sublime throne, an obedient destiny.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Noun

نَسْل (naslf (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਸਲ)

  1. ethnicity, people, stock

Synonyms

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “نسل”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Pronunciation

Noun

نسل (naslf (Hindi spelling नस्ल)

  1. race, ethnic group
  2. family, lineage
    Synonyms: ونش (vanś), خاندان (xāndān)
  3. stock, breed (of animal)
  4. generation
    Synonym: پیڑھی (pīṛhī)

Derived terms

References

  • نسل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “نسل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نسل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu نسل (nasl).

Noun

نسل (nasl)

  1. race, ethnic group
  2. family, lineage
  3. generation