نرگس

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Chagatai

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian نرگس.

Noun

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نرگس (transliteration needed)

  1. narcissus
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Descendants

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  • Uyghur: نەرگىس (nergis)
  • Uzbek: nargis

Persian

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نرگس

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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Dari نرگس
Iranian Persian
Tajik наргис

نرگس (narges) (plural نرگس‌ها (narges-hâ))

  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

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Descendants

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Proper noun

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نرگس (narges)

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

Descendants

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Further reading

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Punjabi

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Etymology

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

Noun

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نَرگِس (nargisf (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਰਗਿਸ)

  1. narcissus
  2. the eye of a beloved

Further reading

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

Sindhi

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Etymology

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

Noun

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نَرگِس (nargasif (Devanagari नर्गसि)

  1. narcissus

Further reading

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  • 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, 18661938

Urdu

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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نَرْگِس (nargisf (Hindi spelling नर्गिस)

  1. narcissus
  2. (metonymically) the eye of a mistress
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Further reading

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  • نرگس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “نرگس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • نرگس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

Ushojo

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Etymology

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From Urdu نرگس (nargis).

Noun

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نرگس (nargis)

  1. narcissus flower