نژاد

See also: نزاد‎ and نراد‎

Persian

Pronunciation
  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /niʒɔd/

Noun
Dari نژاد
Iranian Persian
Tajik нажод (nažod)

نژاد • (nežâd) (plural نژادها‎ (nežâd-hâ))

  1. (archaic) lineage
  2. race (ethnic category)

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Urdu: نژاد‎ (nažād)

See also

Suffix

نژاد • (-nežâd)

  1. a suffix forming surnames

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نِژاد‎ (nižād, “lineage”).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /nə.ʒɑːd̪/
  • (Deccani) IPA(key): /nə.ʒɑːd̪/
  • Audio (PK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːd̪

Noun

نَژاد • (nažād) m or f (Hindi spelling नझ़ाद)

  1. race
  2. family; genealogy, lineage; descent
  3. root, origin; seed

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • نَژادہ‎ (nažāda, “noble”)
  • نَژاد پرست‎ (nažād-parast, “racist”)
  • نَژاد نَو‎ (nažād-e-nau, “new generation”)
  • سِکَنْدَر نِژاد‎ (sikandar-nažād, “brave”, literally “[of the] race of Alexander the Great”)
  • بَد نِژاد‎ (bad-nažād, “low-born, lowly”)

References
  • “نژاد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “نژاد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “نژاد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • “نژاد”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
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