نخچیر

• نخجیر (naxjir)

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭭𐭧𐭰𐭩𐭫 (naxčīr, “game, quarry, chase; hunting, hunt”), from Proto-Iranian *naxusčr̥ya- (“top hunting; top quarry”).

The first part naxu- ("first; top") is related to نخست (noxost, “first”), and the latter part *sčr̥ya- ("hunting; what is to be chased") is related to شکار (šekâr, “hunt, hunting”), hence the original meaning "what is to be hunted to display the outstanding skill of the hunter".

Cognate with Parthian 𐭍𐭇𐭔𐭉𐭓 (naxčīr, “game, quarry, chase”), and Sogdian ܢܓܫܝܪ (naxšīr, “wild beast; wild goat”).

نخچیر • (naxčir)

1. hunt, hunting
2. prey; game, quarry

• شکار (šekâr)

• نخچیرزار (naxčirzâr, “hunting ground”)
• نخچیرباں (naxčîrbân, “hunter”)

• → Urdu: نخچیر (naxcīr)

From Classical Persian نخچیر (naxčīr, “hunt, hunting; game, quarry; prey”).

Cognate with Wakhi نخچیر (naxčīr, “fox”), Yidgha نخشیر (naxšīr, “goat”), Yagnobi нахшир (naxšir), and Gandhari 𐨣𐨐𐨿𐨕𐨁𐨌𐨪 (naxcīra).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nəx.t͡ʃiːɾ/

نخچیر • (naxcīr) m (Hindi spelling नख़चीर)

1. prey; game, quarry
2. wild beast, wild animal
3. wounded beast; captured prey
4. (by extension) captive, prisoner

• نخچیری (naxcīrī, “(pretaining to) hunting”)
• نخچیر گاہ (naxcīr-gāh, “hunting ground”)
• نخچیر زن (naxcīr-zan, “hunter”)
• نخچیر کشی (naxcīr-kušī, “hunting”)
• نخچیر مُحبَّت (naxcīr-e-muhabbat)

• شکار (šikār)

• “نخچیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.