نرگس

See also: نركس and نرګس

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نرگس.

Noun

نرگس • (nrgs) (plural نرگسلار)

1. narcissus

Related terms

• نرگس شهلا (nrgs šhlā)

Descendants

• Uyghur: نەرگىس (nergis)
• Uzbek: nargis

Persian

نرگس

Alternative forms

• نرجس (narjis / narjes) (via Arabic)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nlgs /⁠nargis⁠/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /nar.ˈɡis/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näɾ.ɡɪs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näɾ.ɡɪs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [näɾ.ɡɪs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [näɾ.ɡis]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næɹ.ɡʲes]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [näɾ.ɡis]

Readings
Classical reading?	nargis
Dari reading?	nargis
Iranian reading?	narges
Tajik reading?	nargis

Noun

نرگس • (nargis / narges) (plural نرگس‌ها (nargis-hā / narges-hâ), Tajik spelling наргис)

1. narcissus
   • 1003-1077, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama

     چون از آن جا گذشتیم، به صحرایی رسیدیم که همه نرگس بود شکفته، چنان که تمامتِ آن صحرا سپید می‌نمود از بسیاریِ نرگس‌ها.

     When we passed from that place, we arrived at the field where all the narcissi were cheerful so that the entire field appeared white from the multitude of narcissi.

2. (poetic) the eye of a beauty, beloved, or mistress

Derived terms

• نرگس شهلا (nargis šahlā / narges šahlâ)
• نرگسدان (nargisdān / nargesdân)
• نرگسزار (nargiszār / nargeszâr)
• نرگسستان (nargisistān / nargesestân)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: nərgiz
• → Bashkir: нәркәс (nərkəs)
• → Bengali: নার্গিস (nargis)
• → Chagatai: نرگس (nrgs)
  • Uyghur: نەرگىس (nergis)
  • Uzbek: nargis
• → Georgian: ნარგიზი (nargizi)
• → Gujarati: નરગિસ (nargis)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: नरगिस (nargis)

  Urdu: نَرْگِس (nargis)

• → Kazakh: нәркес (närkes)
• → Middle Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիզ (narkiz), նարգէզ (nargēz), ներկիս (nerkis)
  • Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիս (narkis) (Western Armenian, literary), նարկիզ (narkiz) (obsolete spelling)
• → Malay: nargis
• → Ottoman Turkish: نرگس (nergis), نرجس (nercis)
  • Turkish: nergis
• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi script: نَرگِس (nargis)

  Gurmukhi script: ਨਰਗਿਸ (nargis)

• → Pashto: نرګس (nargis)
• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: نرگس (nargasi)

  Devanagari script: नर्गसि (nargasi)

• → Turkmen: nerkes

Proper noun

نرگس • (nargis / narges) (Tajik spelling Наргис)

1. a female given name, Narges or Nargis, from Middle Persian

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: Nərgiz
• → Bashkir: Нәркәс (Nərkəs)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “نرگس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “نرگس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary (overall work in English), London: Routledge & K. Paul

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

Noun

نَرگِس • (nargis) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਰਗਿਸ)

1. narcissus
2. the eye of a beloved

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “نرگِس”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

Noun

نَرگِس • (nargasi) f (Devanagari नर्गसि)

1. narcissus

Further reading

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910), “نرگس”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “نرگس”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نَرْگِس (nargis).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nəɾ.ɡɪs/

Proper noun

نَرْگِس • (nargis) f (Hindi spelling नरगिस)

1. a female given name, Nargis, from Persian

Noun

نَرْگِس • (nargis) f (Hindi spelling नरगिस)

1. narcissus
2. (metonymic) the eye of a beloved

Declension

Declension of نرگس

	singular	plural
direct	نَرْگِس (nargis)	نَرْگِسیں (nargisẽ)
oblique	نَرْگِس (nargis)	نَرْگِسوں (nargisõ)
vocative	نَرْگِس (nargis)	نَرْگِسو (nargiso)

Derived terms

• نَرْگِسِ شَہْلا (nargis-i śahlā)

Further reading

• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “نرگس”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
• “نرگس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• “نرگس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu نَرْگِس (nargis).

Noun

نرگس (nargis)

1. narcissus flower