نرگس

See also: نركس and نرګس

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نرگس.

Noun

نرگس (transliteration needed)

1. narcissus

Related terms

• نرگس شهلا

Descendants

• Uyghur: نەرگىس (nergis)
• Uzbek: nargis

Persian

نرگس

Alternative forms

• نرجس (narjes) (via Arabic)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nlgs /⁠nargis⁠/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [naɾ.ɡis]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näɾ.ɡɪs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näɾ.ɡɪs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [näɾ.ɡɪs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [näɾ.ɡis]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næɹˈɡʲes]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [näɾ.ɡis]

Readings
Classical reading?	nargis
Dari reading?	nargis
Iranian reading?	naɾɡʲes
Tajik reading?	nargis

Noun

Dari	نرگس
Iranian Persian
Tajik	наргис

نرگس • (narges) (plural نرگس‌ها (narges-hâ))

1. narcissus
   • 1003-1077, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama

     چون از آن جا گذشتیم، به صحرایی رسیدیم که همه نرگس بود شکفته، چنان که تمامتِ آن صحرا سپید می‌نمود از بسیاریِ نرگس‌ها.

     When we passed from that place, we arrived at the field where all the narcissi were cheerful so that the entire field appeared white from the multitude of narcissi.

2. (poetic) the eye of a beauty, beloved, or mistress

Derived terms

• نرگس شهلا (narges-e šahlâ)
• نرگسدان (nargesdân)
• نرگسزار (nargeszâr)
• نرگسستان (nargesestân)

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: nərgiz
• → Bashkir: нәркәс (nərkəs)
• → Bengali: নার্গিস (nargis)
• → Chagatai: نرگس
  • Uyghur: نەرگىس (nergis)
  • Uzbek: nargis
• → Georgian: ნარგიზი (nargizi)
• → Gujarati: નરગિસ (nargis)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: नरगिस (nargis)

  Urdu: نَرْگِس (nargis)

• → Kazakh: нәркес (närkes)
• → Middle Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիզ (narkiz), նարգէզ (nargēz), ներկիս (nerkis)
  • Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիս (narkis) — Western Armenian, literary, նարկիզ (narkiz) — obsolete spelling
• → Malay: nargis
• → Ottoman Turkish: نرگس (nergis)
  • Turkish: nergis
• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi script: نَرگِس (nargis)

  Gurmukhi script: ਨਰਗਿਸ (nargis)

• → Pashto: نرګس (nargis)
• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: نرگس (nargasi)

  Devanagari script: नर्गसि (nargasi)

• → Turkmen: nerkes

Proper noun

نرگس • (narges)

1. a female given name, Narges, Nargess, or Nargis, from Middle Persian

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: Nərgiz
• → Bashkir: Нәркәс (Nərkəs)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نرگس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نرگس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

Noun

نَرگِس • (nargis) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਰਗਿਸ)

1. narcissus
2. the eye of a beloved

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “نرگِس”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

Noun

نَرگِس • (nargasi) f (Devanagari नर्गसि)

1. narcissus

Further reading

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “نرگس”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “نرگس”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nlgs /⁠nargis⁠/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nəɾ.ɡɪs/

Noun

نَرْگِس • (nargis) f (Hindi spelling नर्गिस)

1. narcissus
2. (metonymically) the eye of a mistress

Related terms

• نَرْگِسِ شَہْلا (nargis-i śahlā)

Further reading

• “نرگس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “نرگس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “نرگس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu نرگس (nargis).

Noun

نرگس (nargis)

1. narcissus flower