નિશાળ

Gujarati

નિશાળ

Etymology

Uncertain:

• Inherited from Sanskrit *नयशाला (nayaśālā), from नय (naya, “conduct, plan”) +‎ शाला (śālā, “shed, stable, house”).
• Inherited from Sanskrit *नीतिशाला (nītiśālā), from नीति (nīti, “conduct”) +‎ शाला (śālā, “shed, stable, house”).
• First attested in 1585 Old Gujarati नेसाल (nesāla), which is derived from the earlier लेसाल (lesāla), first attested in 1355, inherited from Sanskrit लेखशाला (lekhaśālā, “writing school”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Gujarati) IPA^(key): /ˈnɪ.ʃɑɭ/
• (dialectal, rustic) IPA^(key): /ˈnɪ.ɦɑɭ/
• Rhymes: -ɑɭ
• Hyphenation: નિ‧શાળ

Noun

નિશાળ • (niśāḷ) f

1. school

   Synonyms: શાળા (śāḷā), સ્કૂલ (skūl), વિદ્યામંદિર (vidyāmandir), વિદ્યાલય (vidyālya), મદરેસા (madresā)

   • 1950, Narhari Parikh, Mahadevbhainu Purvacharit:

     તેનુ દૂધ ઘી વેચી ત્રણે છોકરાને એમણે ગામમાં નિશાળ હતી ત્યાં ભણાવેલા.

     tenu dūdh ghī vecī traṇe chokrāne emṇe gāmmā̃ niśāḷ hatī tyā̃ bhaṇāvelā.

     She sold milk and ghee to educate her three children at the school in the village.

   • 1911, Dahyabhai Derasari, સાઠીના સાહિત્યનું દિગ્દર્શન [Literature of the Sixties]:

     દેશીઓને પોતાના સાહિત્યમાં અભ્યાસ વધે અને તેઓને એતદ્દેશીય ભાષામાં લખતાં આવડે માટે એક પરીક્ષા ઠેરવવામાં આવી હતી. ઈંગ્રેજી અને ગુજરાતી નિશાળના નિશાળીઆ આ પરીક્ષા આપવા બેશી શકતા.

     deśīone potānā sāhityamā̃ abhyās vadhe ane teone etaddeśīya bhāṣāmā̃ lakhtā̃ āvaḍe māṭe eka parīkṣā ṭheravvāmā̃ āvī hatī. ī̃grejī ane gujrātī niśāḷnā niśāḷīā ā parīkṣā āpavā beśī śaktā.

     An exam was established to promote the study of their own literature among the natives and to teach them to write in their regional language. Students from both English and Gujarati schools could sit for this exam.

Declension

Declension of નિશાળ
	singular	plural
nominative	નિશાળ (niśāḷ)	નિશાળો (niśāḷo)
oblique	નિશાળ (niśāḷ)	નિશાળો (niśāḷo)
vocative	નિશાળ (niśāḷ)	નિશાળો (niśāḷo)
instrumental	નિશાળે (niśāḷe)	નિશાળોએ (niśāḷoe)
locative	નિશાળે (niśāḷe)	નિશાળોએ (niśāḷoe)

Derived terms

• નિશાળગરણું (niśāḷgarṇũ, “a Hindu ceremony”)
• નિશાળિયો (niśāḷiyo, “schoolboy”)

 

Related terms

• શાળા (śāḷā)

 

Further reading

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• “નિશાળ”, in Gujaratilexicon.com [Gujarati-English dictionary], Arnion Technologies, 2009.
• “નિશાળ”, in Gujaratilexicon.com [Gujarati-Gujarati dictionary], Arnion Technologies, 2009.
• Belsare, Malhar (1981) “નિશાળ”, in ગુજરાતી-અંગ્રેજી ડિકશનરી [Etymological Gujarati-English Dictionary]‎^[1], Asian Educational Services, page 712
• Ranina, N. R. (2003) “નિશાળ”, in Rustam N. Ranina, editor, A Manual of English Gujarati Dictionary‎^[2], Asian Educational Services, page 525
• Edalji, Shapurji (1863) “નિશાળ”, in A dictionary Gujarati and English‎^[3], Atmaram Sagun, page 452
• Framji, Ardesar (1862) “નિશાળ”, in A Compendium of the English and Gujarati Dictionary‎^[4], page 404
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lēkhaśālā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 646
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nayaśālā-”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 831
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nītiśālā-”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 831