नौकर

See also: नोकर, नोकरी, and नौकरी

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نوکر (nawkar), from a Turkic source, ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *nökör (“friend”). Compare Punjabi ਨੌਕਰ (naukar) / نوکَر (nokar), Gujarati નોકર (nokar), Marathi नोकर (nokar), Bengali নওকর (noōkor), Kannada ನೌಕರ (naukara).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /nɔː.kəɾ/, [nɔː.kɐɾ]

Noun

नौकर • (naukar) m (female equivalent नौकरानी, Urdu spelling نَوکَر)

1. servant

   Synonyms: सेवक (sevak), दास (dās)

2. employee

Declension

Declension of नौकर (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	नौकर naukar	नौकर naukar
oblique	नौकर naukar	नौकरों naukarõ
vocative	नौकर naukar	नौकरो naukaro

Derived terms

• नौकरी (naukrī)

Descendants

• → English: nokar, noker, naukar

References

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