نرد

See also: نزد

Arabic

Etymology 1

Clipping of نَرْدَشِير (nardašīr) or from Persian نرد (nard)

Alternative forms

• نَرْدَشِير (nardašīr) (obsolete)

Noun

نَرْد • (nard) m

1. (collective) dice; game with dice

   Synonym: زَهْر (zahr)

Declension

Declension of noun نَرْد (nard)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	نَرْد nard	النَّرْد an-nard	نَرْد nard
Nominative	نَرْدٌ nardun	النَّرْدُ an-nardu	نَرْدُ nardu
Accusative	نَرْدًا nardan	النَّرْدَ an-narda	نَرْدَ narda
Genitive	نَرْدٍ nardin	النَّرْدِ an-nardi	نَرْدِ nardi

Etymology 2

Verb

نرد (form I)

1. نَرُدُّ (naruddu) /na.rud.du/: first-person plural non-past active indicative of رَدَّ (radda)
2. نُرَدُّ (nuraddu) /nu.rad.du/: first-person plural non-past passive indicative of رَدَّ (radda)
3. نَرُدَّ (narudda) /na.rud.da/: first-person plural non-past active subjunctive/jussive of رَدَّ (radda)
4. نُرَدَّ (nuradda) /nu.rad.da/: first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive/jussive of رَدَّ (radda)
5. نَرُدِّ (naruddi) /na.rud.di/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of رَدَّ (radda)
6. نُرَدِّ (nuraddi) /nu.rad.di/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of رَدَّ (radda)

Etymology 3

Verb

نرد (form I)

1. نَرِدُ (naridu) /na.ri.du/: first-person plural non-past active indicative of وَرَدَ (warada)
2. نَرِدَ (narida) /na.ri.da/: first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of وَرَدَ (warada)
3. نَرِدْ (narid) /na.rid/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of وَرَدَ (warada)

Etymology 4

Verb

نرد (form IV)

1. نُرِدْ (nurid) /nu.rid/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَرَادَ (ʔarāda)
2. نُرَدْ (nurad) /nu.rad/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَرَادَ (ʔarāda)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نرد (nard, “backgammon”).

Noun

نرد • (nerd)

1. backgammon, a board game for two players

Descendants

• Turkish: nerd

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nerd”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4052
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fritillus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[1], Vienna, column 617
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نرد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 5160
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نرد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2079

Persian

Alternative forms

• نردشیر (nardašir)

Etymology

From earlier نردشیر (nardašir), from Middle Persian nywʾlthšyl (nēw-ardaxšīr, “backgammon”).

Noun

نرد • (nard) (plural نردها (nard-hâ))

1. backgammon

Derived terms

• تخته نرد (taxte-nard)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: nərd
• → Arabic: نَرْد (nard)
• → Georgian: ნარდი (nardi)
  • → Armenian: նարդի (nardi)
  • → Russian: нарды (nardy)
    • → Latvian: nardi
    • → Lithuanian: nardai
    • → Mongolian: нарды (nardy)
• → Kazakh: нарт (nart)
• → Middle Armenian: նարտ (nart)
  • Armenian: նարտ (nart)
• → Ottoman Turkish: نرد (nerd)
  • Turkish: nerd
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਨਰਦ (narad)

  Shahmukhi script: نرد (nard)

• → Slovak: nardy
• → Tatar: нәрәтә (närätä)
• → Urdu: نرد (nard)

Noun

نرد • (nard) (plural نردها (nard-hâ))

1. (archaic) tree trunk

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرد (nard).

Noun

نرد • (nard) m

1. counter
2. board game; chess, draughts, checkers
3. backgammon