नशा

See also: नश् and नाश

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (naš'a, “drunk; intoxicated”), from Arabic نَشْأَة (našʔa).^[1] First attested in 1707^[2] as Middle Hindi نشہ (nśh /⁠naśa⁠/).

Cognates

Compare Assamese নিচা (nisa), Bengali নেশা (neśa), Gujarati નશો (naśo).

Pronunciation

(Delhi) IPA^(key): /nə.ʃɑː/, [nɐ.ʃäː]
Rhymes: -ɑː
Hyphenation: न‧शा

Noun

नशा • (naśā) m (Urdu spelling نَشَہ)^[3]

(uncountable) intoxication; drunkenness
नशा उतरना ― naśā utarnā ― to become sober
- 2012, “हुक़्क़ा बार [huqqā bār, Hookah Bar]”, in Shabbir Ahmed, Sameer, Himesh Reshammiya (lyrics), Himesh Reshammiya (music), खिलाड़ी ७८६ [khilāṛī 786, Khiladi 786], performed by Aaman Trikha, Himesh Reshammiya, and Vinit Singh:
  तेरा हुस्न धुएँदार जैसे जलता सिगार
  तेरे प्यार का नशा कभी आर, कभी पार
  terā husn dhuẽdār jaise jaltā sigār
  tere pyār kā naśā kabhī ār, kabhī pār
  Your beauty is smoky like a burning cigar
  The intoxication of your love is sometimes here, sometimes there
alcohol; alcoholic beverage
drug; narcotic
(figurative, uncountable) obsession; delusion

Declension

Declension of *नशा* (masc ā-stem)
	singular	plural
direct	नशा naśā	नशे naśe
oblique	नशे naśe	नशों naśõ
vocative	नशे naśe	नशो naśo

Derived terms

नशा करना (naśā karnā)
नशा टूटना (naśā ṭūṭnā)
नशाख़ोर (naśāxor)
नशाख़ोरी (naśāxorī)
नशाबंदी (naśābandī)
नशीला (naśīlā)
नशे में चूर (naśe mẽ cūr)
नशेड़ी (naśeṛī)
नशेदार (naśedār)
नशेबाज़ी (naśebāzī)

Descendants

Mauritian Creole: nisa

References

More information

^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “naśā”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 634.
^ “نشہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “नशा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 547