See also: نبر and نتر

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
ن ث ر (n ṯ r)
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Pronunciation

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Verb

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نَثَرَ (naṯara) I (non-past يَنْثُرُ (yanṯuru) or يَنْثِرُ (yanṯiru), verbal noun نَثْر (naṯr) or نِثَار (niṯār))

  1. to disperse, to dissipate, to scatter, to sprinkle, to ruffle, to fling
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Etymology 2

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ن ث ر (n ṯ r)
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Verb

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نَثَّرَ (naṯṯara) II (non-past يُنَثِّرُ (yunaṯṯiru), verbal noun تَنْثِير (tanṯīr))

  1. to disperse, to dissipate, to scatter
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Etymology 3

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ن ث ر (n ṯ r)
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Noun

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نَثْر (naṯrm

  1. verbal noun of نَثَرَ (naṯara) (form I)
  2. prose
    Antonyms: شِعْر (šiʕr), نَظْم (naẓm)
Declension
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Azerbaijani: nəsr
  • Ottoman Turkish: نثر (nesr)
  • Pashto: نثر (nasr)
  • Persian: نثر (nasr)
  • → Punjabi:
  • Sindhi: نثر
  • Swahili: nathari
  • Urdu: نثر (nasr)
  • Uzbek: nasr

Etymology 4

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Verb

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نَثُرْ (naṯur) (form I) /na.θur/

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of ثَارَ (ṯāra)

Etymology 5

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Verb

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نثر (form IV)

  1. نُثِرْ (nuṯir) /nu.θir/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَثَارَ (ʔaṯāra)
  2. نُثَرْ (nuṯar) /nu.θar/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَثَارَ (ʔaṯāra)

References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نثر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 238–239
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نثر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1247

Azerbaijani

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Noun

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نثر

  1. Arabic spelling of nəsr

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

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نثر (nesr, vulg. nesir)

  1. prose

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Further reading

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Pashto

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

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نَثْر (nasrm

  1. prose

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

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Readings
Classical reading? nasr
Dari reading? nasr
Iranian reading? nasr
Tajik reading? nasr

Noun

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Dari نثر
Iranian Persian
Tajik наср

نثر (nasr)

  1. prose
    Coordinate term: شعر (še'r, verse)
    تبدیل نظم به نثرtabdil-e nazm be nasrconversion of verse to prose
    • early 1000s, ʿUnṣurī, “Qaṣīda 7”, in دیوان عنصری[4]:
      کمتر از نثر باشد آن نظمی
      که بر او مدح میر زیور نیست
      kamtar az nasr bāšad ān nazmē
      ki bar ō madh-i mīr zēwar nēst
      Worse than prose is the verse
      Which is not adorned with praise for the prince.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
    • c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:
      تا سواران نظم و نثر در میدان بلاغت درآیند و جولانهای غریب نمایند، چنانکه پیشینگان‌ را دست در خاک مالند []
      tā sawārān-i nazm u nasr dar maydān-i balāğat dar-āyand u jawalān-hā ğarīb namāyand, čunānki pēšēnagān rā dast dar xāk māland []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
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Further reading

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  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نثر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Punjabi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

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نَثْر (nas̱rf (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਸਰ)

  1. prose

Sindhi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

Noun

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نَثَُرُ (nasauru? (Devanagari नसौरु)

  1. prose

Further reading

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  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “نَثَُرُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • نثر”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 18661938

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic نَثْر (naṯr).

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Noun

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نثر (nasrf (Hindi spelling नस्र)

  1. prose