نگاہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian نگاه (nigāh).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /nɪ.ˈɡaː˩˥/
• Hyphenation: نِ‧گاہ

نِگاہ • (nigāh) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਿਗਾਹ)

1. a look, sight

• “نگاہ”, in Dictionary of the Jatki Or Western Panjábi Language, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2019 (originally published in 1900), →ISBN, page 309
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “نِگاہ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi نگاہ (nigāh), borrowed from Classical Persian نِگَاه (nigāh).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɪ.ɡɑːɦ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɦ
• Hyphenation: نِ‧گاہ

نِگَاہ • (nigāh) f (Hindi spelling निगाह) (chiefly formal or poetic)

1. synonym of نَظَر (nazar):
2. a glance, sight, look
3. vision
4. regard; consideration
5. look, aspect (of)
6. attention, observation, watching
7. custody, care

• “نگاہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “نگاہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نگاه”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 648
• Platts, John T. (1884) “نگاه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1151
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “نگاه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1169
• John Shakespear (1834) “نگاه”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC