نسل

See also: نشل and ن ش ل

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن س ل (n-s-l)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na.sa.la/

Verb

نَسَلَ • (nasala) I, non-past يَنْسُلُ‎ (yansulu)

  1. to beget, to sire, to father, to procreate
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Root
ن س ل (n-s-l)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nasl/

Noun

نَسْل • (nasl) m (plural أَنْسَال (ʔansāl))

  1. verbal noun of نَسَلَ (nasala) (form I)
  2. progeny, offspring
Declension
Descendants
  • Maltese: nisel
  • Azerbaijani: nəsil
  • Chagatai: نَسْل
  • Hindustani:
  • Kazakh: нәсіл (näsıl)
  • Ottoman Turkish: نسل (nesl)
  • Pashto: نسل (nasl)
  • Persian: نسل (nasl)
  • Punjabi:
  • Tatar: нәсел (näsel)
  • Turkmen: nesil

Verb

نَسَلْ • (nasal) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of سَأَلَ (saʔala)

Verb

نُسَلْ • (nusal) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of سَأَلَ (saʔala)

Verb

نَسِلْ • (nasil) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of سَالَ (sāla)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl, progeny, offspring).

Noun

نسل • (nesl) (plural انسال (ensal))

  1. lineage, ancestry, stock, descent, the descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage
    Synonyms: ذریت (zürriyet), صوی (soy)
  2. race, breed, strain, a group of people distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics
    Synonyms: صوپ (sop), صوی (soy)
  3. offspring, progeny, issue, any of a person's descendants, including of further generations
    Synonym: ذریت (zürriyet)

Derived terms

  • نسلی (nesli, pertaining to issue and posterity)
  • نسلی منقرض اولمق (nesli münkarız olmak, for one's whole race to die out and be extinct)

Descendants

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Noun

نسل • (nasl) m

  1. generation

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? nasl
Dari reading? nasl
Iranian reading? nasl
Tajik reading? nasl

Noun

Dari نسل
Iranian Persian
Tajik насл

نسل • (nasl) (plural نسل‌ها (nasl-hâ))

  1. generation
    نسل‌های بعدیnasl-hâ-ye ba'dilater generations
  2. race, kind
    نسل بشرnasl-e bašarthe human race
  3. offspring; progeny
    • late 1300s, Hafez, Poetic fragment of a panegyric attributed to Hafez:
      سال و فال و مال و حال و اصل و نسل و تخت و بخت
      بادت اندر شهریاری، برقرار و بر دوام
      سال خرّم، فال نیکو، مال وافر، حال خوش
      اصل ثابت، نسل باقی، تخت عالی، بخت رام
      sāl u fāl u māl u hāl u asl u nasl u taxt u baxt
      bād-at andar šahryārī, bar qarār u bar dawām
      sāl-i xurram, fāl-i nēkū, māl-i wāfir, hāl-i xwaš,
      asl-i sābit, nasl-i bāqī, taxt-i ālī, baxt-i rām
      Years, fate, property, condition, ancestry, progeny, throne, destiny
      May you have in your regal status, stable and eternal;
      Joyful years, a fortunate fate, abundant property, a happy condition,
      Steadfast ancestry, durable progeny, a sublime throne, an obedient destiny.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Noun

نَسْل • (nasl) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਸਲ)

  1. ethnicity, people, stock

Synonyms

Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “نسل”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nəsl/

Noun

نسل • (nasl) f (Hindi spelling नस्ल)

  1. race, ethnic group
  2. family, lineage
    Synonyms: ونش (vanś), خاندان (xāndān)
  3. stock, breed (of animal)
  4. generation
    Synonym: پیڑھی (pīṛhī)

Derived terms

  • نسل پرست (nasl parast)
  • نسل پرستی (nasl parastī)

References

  • نسل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “نسل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نسل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu نسل (nasl).

Noun

نسل (nasl)

  1. race, ethnic group
  2. family, lineage
  3. generation
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