نقره

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic نُقْرَة (nuqra). From Sogdian [script needed] (n'krtk-w /⁠nākarta⁠/).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [nuq.ˈɾa]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nʊq.ɾǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nʊq.ɾǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nuq.ɾǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [noʁ.ɹé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nuq.ɾǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	nuqra
Dari reading^?	nuqra
Iranian reading^?	noğre
Tajik reading^?	nuqra

Noun


Iranian Persian	نقره
Dari	نقره
Tajik	нуқра

نُقره • (noqre)

silver (metal)
Synonym: (literary) سیم (sim)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 178:
  زر و نقره گر نبودندی نهان / پرورش کی یافتندی زیر کان
  zar o noqre gar na-budandi nehân / parvareš key yâftandi zir-e kân
  If gold and silver were not hidden, how would they get nourishment [grow and ripen] in the mine?

Derived terms

نقره‌ای (noqre-i)

See also

برنز (boronz, “bronze”)
طلا (talâ, “gold”)

References

• ↑ Gharib, B. (1995), “n'krtk-(w)”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 231

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