नर

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /nəɾ/,

Borrowed from Sanskrit नर (nára).

नर • (nar) m (Urdu spelling نر)

1. man, male

Borrowed from Classical Persian نر (nar). Cognate with Sanskrit नर (nara).

नर • (nar) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling نر)

1. male, masculine

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “नर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

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नर

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Borrowed from Sanskrit नर (nara).

नर • (nar)

1. male, masculine

नर • (nar) m

1. man, male (especially in organisms)

   Antonym: मादी (mādī) (by gender)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “नर”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “नर”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911) “नर”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press

नर m

1. man (generic), person
2. man (adult human male)

Adapted to the regular a-stem declension from earlier r-stem noun नृ (nṛ́), which is inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hnā́, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀνήρ (anḗr), Persian نر (nar), Old Armenian այր (ayr).

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

नर • (nára) stem, m

1. a human, a person, a man (generic)
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.154.5:

     तद॑स्य प्रि॒यम॒भि पाथो॑ अश्यां॒ नरो॒ यत्र॑ देव॒यवो॒ मद॑न्ति।
     उ॒रु॒क्र॒मस्य॒ स हि बन्धु॑रि॒त्था विष्णो॑: प॒दे प॑र॒मे मध्व॒ उत्स॑:॥

     tádasya priyámabhí pā́tho aśyāṃ náro yátra devayávo mádanti.
     urukramásya sá hí bándhuritthā́ víṣṇo: padé paramé mádhva útsa:.

     Might I reach that dear cattle-pen of his, where men seeking the gods find elation, for exactly that is the bond to the wide-striding one: the wellspring of mead in the highest step of Viṣṇu.

2. a male person
3. a husband
4. a hero
5. a man or piece at chess or draughts
6. the pin or gnomon of a sun-dial
7. the primeval Man or eternal Spirit pervading the universe

• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀡𑀭 (ṇara)
• Pali: nara
  • → Khmer: នរ (nɔɔ)
  • → Thai: นร (nɔɔ-rá-)
• → Hindi: नर (nar)
• → Urdu: نر
• → Old Javanese: nara
  • → Balinese: ᬦᬭ (nara)
  • → Indonesian: nara, nara-
• → Marathi: नर (nar)
• → Kannada: ನರ (nara)
• → Telugu: నరుడు (naruḍu)
• → Malayalam: നരൻ (naraṉ)
• → Bengali: নর (nor)

• “न॑र” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 262, column 1.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “नर”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 137
• Monier Williams (1899) “नर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 528, column 3.
• Horace Hayman Wilson, A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed., Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 455
• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “nara”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead