نادان

From ناـ (nâ-) +‎ دان (dân).

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نادان • (nâdân)

1. ignorant
2. unwise

• نادانی (nâdâni)

نادان • (nâdân)

1. ignoramus
2. an unwise person

• دانا (dânâ)

• → Azerbaijani: nadan
• → Bashkir: наҙан (naźan)
• → Bengali: নাদান (nadan)
• → Gujarati: નાદાન (nādān)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: नादान (nādān)

  Urdu: نادان (nādān)

• → Kazakh: надан (nadan)
• → Marathi: नादान (nādān)

Borrowed from Classical Persian نادان (nādān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɑː.d̪ɑːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: نا‧دان

نادان • (nādān) (Hindi spelling नादान)

1. naive
2. foolish

• “نادان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “نادان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

From Persian نادان (nâdân).

• IPA^(key): /nɑdɑn/

نادان • (nadan)

1. ignorant, uneducated
2. stupid, foolish, silly

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN