نسا

Persian نسا (nesâ)

نِسَا، نَسَا • (nisā, nasā) ?

1. (archaic, historical) a town in Fars
2. (archaic, historical) a place in Hamadan
3. (archaic, historical) a place in Kerman
4. (archaic, historical) a place in Khurasan

• Rüdiger Schmitt (2002), "NISĀYA" in Encyclopaedia Iranica

From Arabic نِسَاء (nisāʔ).

نسا • (nisa)

1. women (collectively)

• Turkish: nisa

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nisa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نسا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2079

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɪ.sɑː/

Borrowed from Classical Persian نسا (nisā), from Arabic نِسَاء (nisāʔ).

نِسا • (nisā) f pl (indeclinable, Hindi spelling निसा)

1. women

   Synonym: خَواتِین (xavātīn)

نِسا • (nisā) f (indeclinable, Hindi spelling निसा)

1. the female sex, womankind

• نِسائی (nisāī)
• نِسائِیَت (nisāiyat)

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀦𑀺𑀲𑀸 (nisā), from Sanskrit निशा (niśā). Doublet of نِس (nis) and نِشا (niśā).

نِسا • (nisā) f (Hindi spelling निसा)

1. night

   Synonyms: رات (rāt), رَین (rain), شَب (śab), لَیل (lail)

• نِسا چَر (nisā car, “nocturnal”)
• نِسا کَر (nisā kar, “the moon”)

• Platts, John T. (1884) “نسا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “نسا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.