निशान

See also: नाशन and निशाना

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (nišān), from an earlier (nīšān), from Middle Persian [script needed] (nyšʾn' /⁠nīšān⁠/). Compare Assamese নিচান (nisan), Bengali নিশান (niśan), Gujarati નિશાન (niśān), Kannada ನಿಶಾನೆ (niśāne), Marathi निशाण (niśāṇ), Punjabi ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨ (niśān) / نشان (niśān).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

निशान • (niśān) m (Urdu spelling نشان)

Declension

Declension of निशान (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	निशान niśān	निशान niśān
oblique	निशान niśān	निशानों niśānõ
vocative	निशान niśān	निशानो niśāno

Descendants

Tamil: நிஷானி (niṣāṉi)
Telugu: నిశాని (niśāni)

References

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

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