نثر

See also: نبر and نتر

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن ث ر (n-ṯ-r)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na.θa.ra/

Verb

نَثَرَ • (naṯara) I, non-past يَنْثُرُ or يَنْثِرُ‎ (yanṯuru or yanṯiru)

  1. to disperse, to dissipate, to scatter, to sprinkle, to ruffle, to fling
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Root
ن ث ر (n-ṯ-r)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naθ.θa.ra/

Verb

نَثَّرَ • (naṯṯara) II, non-past يُنَثِّرُ‎ (yunaṯṯiru)

  1. to disperse, to dissipate, to scatter
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Root
ن ث ر (n-ṯ-r)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naθr/

Noun

نَثْر • (naṯr) m

  1. verbal noun of نَثَرَ (naṯara) (form I)
  2. prose
    Antonyms: شِعْر (šiʕr), نَظْم (naẓm)
Declension
Derived terms
  • نَثْرِيّ (naṯriyy, prosal, prosaic)
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: nəsr
  • Ottoman Turkish: نثر (nesr)
  • Pashto: نثر (nasr)
  • Persian: نثر (nasr)
  • → Punjabi:
  • Sindhi: نثر
  • Swahili: nathari
  • Urdu: نثر (nasr)
  • Uzbek: nasr

Verb

نَثُرْ • (naṯur) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of ثَارَ (ṯāra)

Verb

نُثِرْ • (nuṯir) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَثَارَ (ʔaṯāra)

Verb

نُثَرْ • (nuṯar) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَثَارَ (ʔaṯāra)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نثر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 238–239
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نثر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1247

Azerbaijani

Noun

نثر

  1. Arabic spelling of nəsr

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

نثر • (nesr, vulg. nesir)

  1. prose

Descendants

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

نَثْر • (nasr) m

  1. prose

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? nasr
Dari reading? nasr
Iranian reading? nasr
Tajik reading? nasr

Noun

Dari نثر
Iranian Persian
Tajik наср

نثر • (nasr)

  1. prose
    Coordinate term: شعر (še'r, verse)
    تبدیل نظم به نثرtabdil-e nazm be nasrconversion of verse to prose
    • early 1000s, ʿUnṣurī, “Qaṣīda 7”, in دیوان عنصری:
      کمتر از نثر باشد آن نظمی
      که بر او مدح میر زیور نیست
      kamtar az nasr bāšad ān nazmē
      ki bar ō madh-i mīr zēwar nēst
      Worse than prose is the verse
      Which is not adorned with praise for the prince.
      (Classical Persian romanization)

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

نَثْر • (nas̱r) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਸਰ)

  1. prose

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

نَثَُرُ • (nasauru) ? (Devanagari नसौरु)

  1. prose

Further reading

  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “نَثَُرُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • نثر”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Pronunciation

Noun

نثر • (nasr) f (Hindi spelling नस्र)

  1. prose
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