نشان

Borrowed from Classical Persian نِشَان (nišān, “sign, mark”).

نشان • (nişan)

1. sign, mark, symbol, indicator

   Synonyms: اشارت (işaret), علامت (ʼalamet)

2. thing set up, as a post or pillar
3. stamp, an indentation or imprint made by stamping

   Synonym: تمغا (tamga)

4. target, a butt or mark to shoot at

   Synonyms: آماج (amaç), غرض (ğaraz), هدف (hedef)

5. aim, the pointing of a weapon
6. decoration worn as an honor
7. royal cypher usually set over letters-patent, public buildings, etc.

   Synonym: علامت (ʼalamet)

8. token given by a man to his betrothed upon the formal betrothal

• Turkish: nişan
• → Albanian: nishan
• → Armenian: նիշան (nišan)
• → Bulgarian: ниша́н (nišán)
• → French: nichan
• → Greek: νισάνι (nisáni)
• → Macedonian: нишан (nišan)
• → Old East Slavic: нишанъ (nišanŭ)
  • → Russian: ниша́н (nišán)
• → Romanian: nișam
• → Serbo-Croatian: nìšan / нѝшан

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “nişan2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3552
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “نشان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 479a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “نشان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1275
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Signum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1554
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “نشان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5180
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “nişan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “نشان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2084

• نیشان (nišân)

From earlier نِیشَان (nīšān), from Middle Persian [script needed] (nyšʾn' /⁠nīšān⁠/, “sign, mark, banner”) (compare Manichaean Parthian 𐫗𐫏𐫢𐫀𐫗 (nyšʾn /⁠nīšān⁠/), Old Armenian նշան (nšan), Old Georgian ნიშანი (nišani), Northern Kurdish nîşan, Central Kurdish نیشان (nîşan)), from [script needed] (nyš /⁠nīš-⁠/) (compare Old Armenian նիշ (niš), Old Georgian ნიში (niši), Classical Syriac ܢܝܫܐ (nīšāʾ), Hebrew נֵס (nēs), loanwords from Iranian). See the Middle Persian for more.

نشان • (nešân) (plural نشان‌ها)

1. sign, mark
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 388:

     چون که عمر شیخ در آخر رسید
     در وجود خود نشان مرگ دید

     čōn ki 'umr-i šayx dar āxir rasīd
     dar wujūd-i xwad nišān-i marg dīd

     When the Shaykh's life reached its end
     and he saw in his (bodily) existence the signs of death

2. aim, target, butt
3. medal, order, decoration
4. banner, flag, standard, ensign
5. coat of arms

   Synonym: آرم (ârm)

(some may be from Middle Persian)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “نشان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “nīšān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Classical Persian نِشَان (nišān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɪ.ʃɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: نِ‧شَان

نِشَان • (niśān) m (Hindi spelling निशान)

1. sign, symbol
2. mark, impression, scar
3. trace, clue, vestige
4. ensign, standard
5. decoration, medal

• نشانہ (niśānā)
• نشانی (niśānī)