نقصان

Arabic

Root
ن ق ص (n q ṣ)
13 terms

Etymology

Verbal noun of نَقَصَ (naqaṣa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuq.sˤaːn/
• Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

نُقْصَان • (nuqṣān) m

1. verbal noun of نَقَصَ (naqaṣa) (form I)
   • Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi:

     لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ إِذَا مَا تَمَّ نُقْصَانُ / فَلَا يُغَرَّ بِطِيبِ العَيْشِ إنْسَانُ

     likulli šayʔin ʔiḏā mā tamma nuqṣānu / falā yuḡarra biṭībi l-ʕayši ʔinsānu

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. decrease, diminution
3. loss, damage
4. shortage

Declension

Declension of noun نُقْصَان (nuqṣān)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	نُقْصَان nuqṣān	النُّقْصَان an-nuqṣān	نُقْصَان nuqṣān
nominative	نُقْصَانٌ nuqṣānun	النُّقْصَانُ an-nuqṣānu	نُقْصَانُ nuqṣānu
accusative	نُقْصَانًا nuqṣānan	النُّقْصَانَ an-nuqṣāna	نُقْصَانَ nuqṣāna
genitive	نُقْصَانٍ nuqṣānin	النُّقْصَانِ an-nuqṣāni	نُقْصَانِ nuqṣāni

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: nöqsan
• → Chagatai: نُقْصَان (nqṣān)
  • Uyghur: نۇقسان (nuqsan)
  • Uzbek: nuqson
• → Classical Persian: نُقْصَان (nuqsān)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: नुक़सान (nuqsān), नुकसान (nuksān) — nuqtaless

    Urdu: نُقْصَان (nuqsān)

  • → Middle Bengali: নোকসান (nōksan)
    • Bengali: লোকসান (lōkśan)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਨੁਕ਼ਸਾਨ (nuqsān), ਨੁਕਸਾਨ (nuksān) (nuqtaless)

    Shahmukhi script: نُقْصَان (nuqṣān)

• → Ottoman Turkish: نُقْصَان (noksân)
  • Turkish: noksan
  • → Crimean Tatar: nuqsan

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْصَان (nuqṣān, “decrease; loss; shortage”).

Noun

نقصان • (noksan) (definite accusative نقصانی (noksanı), plural نقصانلر (noksanlar))

1. deficiency, lack, absence, want

   Synonym: اكسیكلك (eksiklik)

Adjective

نقصان • (noksan)

1. deficient, lacking, missing, absent

   Synonym: اكسیك (eksik)

Descendants

• Turkish: noksan
• → Crimean Tatar: nuqsan

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “نقصان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 827
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “noksan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3560
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “noksân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1009
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “نقصان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1284
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “noksan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “نقصان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2098
• Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901), “نقصان”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1468

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْصَان (nuqṣān)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /nuq.ˈsaːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nʊq.sɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nʊq.sɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nʊq.sɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nuq.sɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [noʁ.sɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nuq.sɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	nuqsān
Dari reading?	nuqsān
Iranian reading?	noġsân
Tajik reading?	nuqson

Noun

Dari	نقصان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	нуқсон

نقصان • (noqsân)

1. deficiency, loss, decrease, shortage
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 805:

     خود حسد نقصان و عیبی دیگر است
     بلکه از جمله کمیها بدتر است

     xwad hasad nuqsān u 'ayb-ē dīgar ast
     balka az jumla kamī-hā bad-tar ast

     (But) indeed envy is another defect and fault;
     nay, it is worse than all inferiorities.

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “نقصان”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic نُقْصَان (nuqṣān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nʊq.sɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

نُقْصان • (nuqsān) m (Hindi spelling नुक़सान)

1. loss, harm, harmful
2. disadvantage, drawback, downside

References

• Platts, John T. (1884), “نقصان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “نقصان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• “نقصان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “نقصان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “نقصان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “نقصان”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu نقصان (nuqsān), from Arabic نُقْصَان (nuqṣān).

Noun

نقصان (nuqsān)

1. loss, harm, harmful
2. disadvantage, drawback, downside