نزد
See also: نرد
Arabic
Verb
نزد (form I)
- نَزِدْ (nazid) /na.zid/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of زَادَ (zāda)
- نُزَدْ (nuzad) /nu.zad/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of زَادَ (zāda)
- نَزُدْ (nazud) /na.zud/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of زَادَ (zāda)
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian [script needed] (nzd /nazd/), from Proto-Iranian *názdah. Compare also نزدیک (nazdik).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /naz.ˈdi/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [näz.d̪ɪ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [næz.d̪e]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [näz.d̪i]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | nazd-i |
| Dari reading? | nazd-i |
| Iranian reading? | nazd-e |
| Tajik reading? | nazd-i |
Preposition
| Dari | نزد |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | назд |
نزد • (nazd-e) (literary)
- near, by, next to
- in the opinion of
- 1611, ʿAbd al-Sattār ibn Qāsim Lāhōrī, مجالس جهانگیری [Majālis-i Jahāngīrī]:
- اگر بر تقدیر معقولیت میفرمایید پس باطلترین و نجسترین و گندهترین دینها پیش من دین ایشان است بلكه دین هنود نزد من از دین ایشان بهتر!
- agar bar taqdīr-i ma'quliyat mē-farmāyēd pas bātiltarīn u najistarīn u gandatarīn-i dīn-hā pēš-i man dīn-i ēšān ast balki dīn-i hunūd nazd-i man az dīn-i ēšān bihtar!
- If you assess it based on plausibility, then my view is that the absurdest, the impurest, and the dirtiest of religions is theirs: in my opinion, the religion of the Hindus is better than theirs!
Descendants
- → Ottoman Turkish: نزد
- Turkish: nezd
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “nzd”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 58
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نزد”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul