निशान

See also: नाशन and निशाना

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نشان (nešân), from an earlier نیشان (nišân), from Middle Persian [script needed] (nyšʾn' /⁠nīšān⁠/). Compare Punjabi ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨ (niśān) / نشان (nśān), Gujarati નિશાન (niśān), Marathi निशाण (niśāṇ), Bengali নিশান (niśan), Kannada ನಿಶಾನೆ (niśāne).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /nɪ.ʃɑːn/, [nɪ.ʃä̃ːn]

Noun

निशान • (niśān) m (Urdu spelling نشان)

1. mark, impression

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “निशान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press