نثر

See also: نبر‎ and نتر‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the 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

From the 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

From the 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; 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

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /nasɾ/

Noun

Dari نثر
Iranian Persian
Tajik наср (nasr)

نثر • (nasr)

  1. prose

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 (in English), Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • “نثر”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary (in English), 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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