ناچار

Persian

Etymology

From ناـ (nâ-, “without”) +‎ چار (čâr, from چاره (čâre, “remedy”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /naː.ˈt͡ʃaːr/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nɑː.t͡ʃʰɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nɑː.t͡ʃʰɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nɑː.t͡ʃʰɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nɔː.t͡ʃʰɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [nɒː.t͡ʃʰɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nɔ.t͡ʃʰɔ́ɾ]

• Rhymes: -aːr

Readings
Classical reading?	nāčār
Dari reading?	nāčār
Iranian reading?	nâčâr
Tajik reading?	nočor

Adjective

ناچار • (nāčār / nâčâr) (Tajik spelling ночор)

1. without other choice, constrained
2. indispensable
3. helpless, miserable

Adverb

ناچار • (nāčār / nâčâr) (Tajik spelling ночор)

1. by necessity, obligedly

Derived terms

• ناچارا (nâčâran)

Descendants

• Tajik: ночор (nočor)
• → Azerbaijani: naçar
• → Bashkir: насар (nasar)
• → Bengali: নাচার (nacar)
• → Central Kurdish: ناچار (naçar)
• → Chagatai:
  • Uyghur: ناچار (nachar)
  • Uzbek: nochor
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: नाचार (nācār)

  Urdu: نَاچَار (nācār)

• → Kazakh: нашар (naşar)
• → Kyrgyz: начар (nacar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: نَاچَار (nâçâr)

  > Turkish: naçar (inherited)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਨਾਚਾਰ (nācār), ਨਚਾਰ (nacār)

  Shahmukhi script: نَاچَار (nācār), نَچَار (nacār)

• → Tatar: начар (naçar)
• → Turkmen: naçar (“woman; female”)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “ناچار”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “ناچار”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.

Uyghur

Other scripts

Arabic	ناچار
Latin	nachar
Cyrillic (Kazakhstan)	начар (nachar)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نَاچَار (nāčār).

Adjective

ناچار • (nachar)

1. weak, bad