निशान
Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian نشان (nišān), from an earlier نیشان (nīšān), from Middle Persian [script needed] (nyšʾn' /nīšān/). Compare Assamese নিচান (nisan), Bengali নিশান (niśan), Gujarati નિશાન (niśān), Kannada ನಿಶಾನೆ (niśāne), Marathi निशाण (niśāṇ), Punjabi ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨ (niśān) / نشان (niśān).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
निशान • (niśān) m (Urdu spelling نشان)
Declension edit
Declension of निशान (masc cons-stem)
Descendants edit
References edit
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “निशान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press