नगर

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

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /nə.ɡəɾ/,

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?

From Sanskrit नगर (nágara).

नगर • (nagar) n

1. city, town

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

Borrowed from Sanskrit नगर (nagara).

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

नगर • (nagar)

1. city, town

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

नगर • (nagara)

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

From Sanskrit नगर (nagara).

• IPA^(key):

नगर • (nagara) ? (Newa Spelling 𑐣𑐐𑐬)

1. city, town

From Sanskrit नगर (nagara).

नगर • (nagara) n

1. city

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”) (although Mayrhofer doubts Tedesco's derivation and considers the word to be borrowed from Dravidian to Indo-Aryan). It is likely the ultimate source of similar words in Dravidian; compare Old Tamil 𑀦𑀓𑀭𑁆 (nakar, “house, palace, temple, city”), Telugu నగరు (nagaru, “palace”). Southworth derives the word from Proto-South Dravidian *nakar.

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

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.

नगर • (nágara) stem

1. urban

• 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