نوکر

Via some Turkic source, compare Azerbaijani nökər (“servant”). Ultimately of Mongolic origin, compare Modern Mongolian нөхөр (nöxör, “friend”), from Proto-Mongolic *nökör (“friend”).

The meaning of “servant” is owing to a semantic shift that happened in Turkic words borrowed from Mongolic; the Persian word was loaned from one of such Turkic words with the altered meaning.

• (Classic Persian) IPA^(key): /nawkar/
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [noʊˈkæɾ]
• (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [noˈkæɾ]
• (Dari) IPA^(key): /næʊˈkæɾ/

نوکر • (nokar) (plural نوکرها‎ (nokar-hâ))

1. servant, domestic, attendant

• → Bengali: নওকর (noōkor)
• → Hindi: नौकर (naukar)

Borrowed from Persian نوکر‎ (nokar).

نوکر • (naukar) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਨੌਕਰ)

1. servant (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. employee (clarification of this definition is needed)

• نوکری‎ (naukarī)

Borrowed from Persian نوکر‎ (nowkar).

نوکر • (naukar) m (Hindi spelling नौकर)

1. servant, domestic, attendant
2. employee

• خادم‎ (xādim)
• ملازم‎ (mulāzim)

• نوکری‎ (naukrī)

• نوکرانی‎ (naukrānī)

From Urdu نوکر‎ (naukar).

نوکر (naukar)

1. servant, attendant, waiter
2. employee