نیسان

See also: نيسان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نِيْسَان (niysān), from Classical Syriac ܢܝܣܢ.

Noun

نیسان • (nisan)

(Syriac calendar) April

Descendants

Turkish: nisan
Northern Kurdish: nîsan

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890), “نیسان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2117

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَيْسَان (naysān), from Classical Syriac ܢܝܣܢ.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /naj.ˈsaːn/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näj.sɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [näj.sɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [näj.sɔ́ːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [nej.sɒ́ːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [näj.sɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading^?	naysān
Dari reading^?	naysān
Iranian reading^?	neysân
Tajik reading^?	nayson

Noun

نیسان • (naysān / neysân) (Tajik spelling найсон)

(Syriac calendar) April

Descendants

→ Gujarati: નૈસાન (naisān)

See also

(month): Previous: آذار (âzâr). Next: ایّار (ayyâr)

Further reading

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “نيسان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul