نقصان

Arabic

Root
ن ق ص (n q ṣ)
4 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuq.sˤaːn/

Noun

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

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

Declension

Declension of noun نُقْصَان (nuqṣān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	نُقْصَان nuqṣān	النُّقْصَان an-nuqṣān	نُقْصَان nuqṣān
Nominative	نُقْصَانٌ nuqṣānun	النُّقْصَانُ an-nuqṣānu	نُقْصَانُ nuqṣānu
Accusative	نُقْصَانًا nuqṣānan	النُّقْصَانَ an-nuqṣāna	نُقْصَانَ nuqṣāna
Genitive	نُقْصَانٍ nuqṣānin	النُّقْصَانِ an-nuqṣāni	نُقْصَانِ nuqṣāni

Descendants

• → Persian: نقصان (noqsân)
  • → Middle Bengali: নোকসান (nōksan)
    • Bengali: লোকসান (lōkśan)
  • → Hindustani
    • Urdu: نقصان (nuqsān)
    • Hindi: नुक़सान (nuqsān)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: نقصان (noksan)
    • Turkish: noksan
• → Uyghur: نۇقسان (nuqsan)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْصَان (nuqṣān)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [nuq.sɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nʊq.sɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nʊq.sɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nʊq.sɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nuq.sɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [noʁ.sɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nuq.sɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	nuqsān
Dari reading?	nuqsān
Iranian reading?	noğsân
Tajik reading?	nuqson

Noun

Dari	نقصان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	нуқсон

نقصان • (noqsân)

1. deficiency, loss, decrease, shortage
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 805:

     خود حسد نقصان و عیبی دیگر است
     بلکه از جمله کمیها بدتر است‏

     xwad hasad nuqsān u 'ayb-ē dīgar ast
     balka az jumla kamī-hā bad-tar ast

     (But) indeed envy is another defect and fault;
     nay, it is worse than all inferiorities.

References

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

Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic نُقْصَان (nuqṣān).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

نُقْصان • (nuqsān) m (Hindi spelling नुक़सान)

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

References

• Platts, John T. (1884) “نقصان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “نقصان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• “نقصان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (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 ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• 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

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu نقصان (nuqsān).

Noun

نقصان (nuqsān)

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