نگاه

نگاه

See also: نگاہ‎ and نګاه‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نگاه‎ (negâh, “look, glance”).

Noun

نگاه • (nigâh)

1. look, glance

   Synonym: باقم‎ (bakım)

Related terms

• نگاهبان‎ (nigahban)
• نگاهبانی‎ (nigahbani)
• نگاهدار‎ (nigahdar)
• نگاهداری‎ (nigahdari)
• نگاهداشت‎ (nigahdaşt)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: nigâh

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “nigâh”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3543
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “نگاه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1286
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Observatio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1177
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “نگاه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5246
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “نگاه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2103

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Persian

Alternative forms

• نگه‎ (negah) (oftener in bookish or literary-style compound verbs such as نگه کردن‎ and نگه داشتن‎)

Etymology

A derivative of Proto-Indo-European *kʷeḱ- (“to see; to look”). Related to آگاه‎ (âgâh), and dialectal گاس‎ (gâs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /niɡɑːh/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /nɪɡɑːh/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /neɡɒːh/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /niɡɔh/

Noun

Dari	نگاه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	нигоҳ (nigoh)

نگاه • (negâh)

1. look, glance
2. observation
3. custody, watch, care, caution

Derived terms

• نگاه افکندن‎ (negâh afkandan)
• نگاه انداختن‎ (negâh andâxtan)
• نگاهبان‎ (negâhbân)
• نگاهبانی‎ (negâhbâni)
• نگاهدار‎ (negâhdâr)
• نگاهداری‎ (negâhdâri)
• نگاه داشتن‎ (negâh dâštan)
• نگاه دزدیدن‎ (negâh dozdidan)
• نگاه کردن‎ (negâh kardan)

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: nigah
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: निगाह (nigāh)
  • Urdu: نگاہ‎ (nigāh)
• → Ottoman Turkish: نگاه‎ (nigâh)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi: ਨਿਗਾਹ (nigāh)
  • Shahmukhi: نگاہ‎ (nigāh)
• → Pashto: نګاه‎ (nigāh)
• → Uzbek: nigoh

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “نگاه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, volume 2, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim, pages 1107–1108
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “نگاه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul