نرگس

Borrowed from Persian نرگس.

نرگس (transliteration needed)

1. narcissus

• نرگس شهلا

• Uyghur: نەرگىس (nergis)
• Uzbek: nargis

• نرجس (nercis) (via Arabic instead of Classical Persian)

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nlgs /⁠nargis⁠/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

نرگس • (nergis)

1. the narcissus
2. the eye of a beauty

• نرگسدان (nergisdan)
• نرگس شهلا (nergis-i şehla)

• Turkish: nergis

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نرگس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2077

• نرجس (narjes) (via Arabic)

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nlgs /⁠nargis⁠/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

نرگس • (narges) (plural نرگس‌ها (narges-hâ))

1. narcissus
   • 1003-1077, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama

     چون از آن جا گذشتیم، به صحرایی رسیدیم که همه نرگس بود شکفته، چنان که تمامتِ آن صحرا سپید می‌نمود از بسیاریِ نرگس‌ها.

     When we passed from that place, we arrived at the field where all the narcissi were cheerful so that the entire field appeared white from the multitude of narcissi.

2. (poetic) the eye of a beauty, beloved, or mistress

• → Azerbaijani: nərgiz
• → Bashkir: нәркәс (nərkəs)
• → Bengali: নার্গিস (nargis)
• → Chagatai: نرگس
  • Uyghur: نەرگىس (nergis)
  • Uzbek: nargis
• → Georgian: ნარგიზი (nargizi)
• → Gujarati: નરગિસ (nargis)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: नरगिस (nargis)

  Urdu: نَرْگِس (nargis)

• → Kazakh: нәркес (närkes)
• → Middle Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիզ (narkiz), նարգէզ (nargēz), ներկիս (nerkis)
  • Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիս (narkis); նարկիզ (narkiz)
• → Malay: nargis
• → Ottoman Turkish: نرگس (nergis)
  • Turkish: nergis
• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi script: نَرگِس (nargis)

  Gurmukhi script: ਨਰਗਿਸ (nargis)

• → Pashto: نرګس (nargis)
• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: نرگس (nargasi)

  Devanagari script: नर्गसि (nargasi)

• → Turkmen: nerkes

نرگس • (narges)

1. a female given name, Narges, Nargess, or Nargis, from Middle Persian

• → Azerbaijani: Nərgiz
• → Bashkir: Нәркәс (Nərkəs)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نرگس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نرگس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

نَرگِس • (nargis) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਰਗਿਸ)

1. narcissus
2. the eye of a beloved

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “نرگِس”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

نَرگِس • (nargasi) f (Devanagari नर्गसि)

1. narcissus

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nlgs /⁠nargis⁠/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nəɾ.ɡɪs/

نَرْگِس • (nargis) f (Hindi spelling नर्गिस)

1. narcissus
2. (metonymically) the eye of a mistress

• نَرْگِسِ شَہْلا (nargis-i śahlā)

• “نرگس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “نرگس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “نرگس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

From Urdu نرگس (nargis).

نرگس (nargis)

1. narcissus flower