نقصان

From the root ن ق ص‎ (n-q-ṣ).

• IPA^(key): /nuq.sˤaːn/

نُقْصَان • (nuqṣān) m

1. verbal noun of نَقَصَ‎ (naqaṣa) (form I)
   • Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi

     ‏لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ إِذَا مَا تَمَّ نُقْصَانُ / فَلَا يُغَرَّ بِطِيبِ العَيْشِ إنْسَانُ‎

     likulli šayʔin ʔiḏā mā tamma nuqṣānu / falā yuḡarra biṭībi l-ʕayši ʔinsānu

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. decrease, diminution
3. loss, damage
4. shortage

• → Persian: نقصان‎ (noqsân)
  • → Hindustani
    • Urdu: نقصان‎ (nuqsān)
    • Hindi: नुक़सान (nuqsān)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: نقصان‎ (noksan)
    • Turkish: noksan

From Arabic نُقْصَان‎ (nuqṣān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nʊq.sɑːn/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /nʊx.sɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

نُقْصان or نقصان • (nuqṣān or nuqsān) m (Hindi spelling नुक़्सान or नुक़सान)

1. loss, harm, harmful
2. disadvantage, drawback, downside

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• S. W. Fallon (1879), “نقصان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• “نقصان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “نقصان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “نقصان”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• John Shakespear (1834), “نقصان”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

From Urdu نقصان‎ (nuqsān).

نقصان (nuqsān)

1. loss, harm, harmful
2. disadvantage, drawback, downside