نہیں

• نَئیں (na'īṉ)

Inherited from Sanskrit नहि (nahi).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /nə˩˥ĩː/, /ˈnə.ɦĩː/

نہیں • (nahī̃) (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਹੀਂ)

1. no
2. not

   میں نہیں جاواں گا!

   maĩ nahī̃ jāvāṅgā!

   I will not go!

نہیں • (nahī̃) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਹੀਂ)

1. a no, nay

Inherited from Sanskrit नहि (nahí, “surely not”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *naǰʰí, from earlier *ná gʲʰí, from Proto-Indo-European *né + *gʰí. Cognate with Bengali নাই (nai)/নেই (nei), Early Assamese নাহি (nahi), Assamese নাই (nai), Braj नहीं (nahī̃).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nə.ɦĩː/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [nə͡.ĩː], [nə͡.iː]
• (Punjabic Urdu, Overseas, Europe) IPA^(key): [nĩː]

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• Rhymes: -ĩː

نَہِیں • (nahī̃) (Hindi spelling नहीं)

1. no, not, nay (indicative negation)

   بالکل نہیں! ― bilkul nahī̃! ― absolutely not!

   یہاں گاجر نہیں ہیں۔ ― yahā̃ gājar nahī̃ ha͠i. ― there are no carrots here.

Often preceded by the honorific particle جی (jī) to be more polite in answering those given respect.

Compare the subjunctive negation نہ (nā).

• جی نہیں (jī nahī̃)
• نہیں تو (nahī̃ to, “if not...then, else, otherwise”)

نہیں • (nahī̃) (Hindi spelling नहीं)

1. (informal) don't

   Synonyms: مت (mat), نہ (nā)

   تم نہیں جاؤ۔ ― tum nahī̃ jāo. ― Don't go.

• “نہیں”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “نہیں”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نہيں”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.