نه

See also: نہ, به, ته, بہٕ, په, پہ, and تۀ

Gilaki

Numeral

نه (no)

1. nine

Khalaj

Etymology 1

Adverb

نه (nə)

1. Arabic spelling of nə (“what a, how, why”)

Etymology 2

Conjunction

نه...نه... (nə ... nə ...)

1. Arabic spelling of nə (“neither; nor”)

Mazanderani

Numeral

نه (ne)

1. nine

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *nē-

Pronoun

نَه • (nä)

1. (interrogative) what
2. (fused relative) that which, the thing that.

   دَدَه قُرْقُوتْ صُويْلَامِشْ، كُرَلُمْ خَانُمْ نَه صُويْلَامِشْ: [...]

   dede ḳorḳut soylamış, görälüm ḫānum nä soylamış: [...]

   Dede Korkut said, let us see, my lord, what he said: [...]

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: nə
• Gagauz: ne
• Ottoman Turkish: نه (ne)
  • Turkish: ne

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian نه.

Conjunction

نَه ... نَه ... • (nä ... nä ...)

1. neither ... nor ...

   نَه آنْ نَه بَنْ

   nä an nä bän

   neither me nor him

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: nə
• Gagauz: ne
• Ottoman Turkish: نه (ne)
  • Turkish: ne

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Old Anatolian Turkish نَه (nä), fromProto-Turkic *nē- (“what”).

Pronoun

نه • (ne)

1. what

Descendants

• Turkish: ne

Adverb

نه • (ne)

1. what

Descendants

• Turkish: ne

Etymology 2

From Persian نه (na).

Conjunction

نه • (ne)

1. neither; nor

Descendants

• Turkish: ne

Pashto

Pashto numbers ^(edit)

	90
←  8	۹ 9	10  →
Cardinal: نُه (në)     Ordinal: نهم (nëhëm)

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nə/

Numeral

نه • (në)

1. nine

Persian

Alternative forms

• نع (na') (nonstandard)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Classical Persian نی (nē), see there for more.

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næ]
• (all other standards) IPA^(key): [na]

Adverb

Dari	نه, نی
Iranian Persian	نه
Tajik	не, на

نَه • (na)

1. not
2. (informal) no

Particle

نَه • (na)

1. (informal in Dari and Tajik, normal in Iran) no

Synonyms

• نخیر (na-xeyr)
• خیر (xeyr)
• (slang) نچ (noč)

Etymology 2

Persian numbers ^(edit)

	90
←  8	۹ 9	10  →
Cardinal: نُه (noh)     Ordinal: نهم (nohom)

Dari	نه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	нуҳ, нӯҳ

From Middle Persian [script needed] (nwk' /⁠nōg⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎴𐎺 (n-v /⁠nava⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognate to English nine.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈnuh/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [no̞ʱ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [no̞ʱ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nʊ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nu]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [noʱ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nuʱ], [nɵʰ]

• Rhymes: -uh

Readings
Classical reading?	nuh
Dari reading?	noh
Iranian reading?	noh
Tajik reading?	nuh, nüh

Numeral

نه • (nuh / noh) (Persian numeral ۹, Tajik spelling нуҳ)

1. nine

Sindhi

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit न (na).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nə]

Adverb

نه • (na) (Devanagari न)

1. not

References

• Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988), “نه”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ, page 1860
• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910), “نَہ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, page 580
• Sindhi Language Authority (2026), “نه”, in Online Sindhi Dictionaries‎^[1]