नगर

See also: नांगर

Hindi

Etymology

From Sanskrit नगर (nágara).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nə.ɡəɾ/

Noun

नगर • (nagar) m (Urdu spelling نگر‎)

city, town
तुम किस नगर से आये हो? ― tum kis nagar se āye ho? ― What city do you come from?

Declension

Declension of नगर
	Singular	Plural
Direct	नगर (nagar)	नगर (nagar)
Oblique	नगर (nagar)	नगरों (nagrõ)
Vocative	नगर (nagar)	नगरो (nagro)

Synonyms

शहर (śahar)

Marathi

Etymology

From Sanskrit नगर (nágara).

Noun

नगर • (nagar) n

city, town

References

James Thomas Molesworth (1857), “नगर”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press

Nepali

Noun

नगर • (nagar)

city, town

Verb form

नगर • (nagara)

second-person imperative of गर्नु (garnu)

Newari

Noun

नगर (nagara)

city, town

Old Gujarati

Etymology

From Sanskrit नगर (nagara)

Noun

नगर (transliteration needed) n

city

Sanskrit

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Dravidian, compare Tamil [script needed] (nakar, “house, palace, temple, city”), Telugu [script needed] (nagaru, “palace”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /n̪ɐ́.ɡɐ.ɽɐ/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈn̪ɐ.ɡɐ.ɽɐ/

Noun

नगर • (nágara) n

town, city
- c. 1000, Rāmāyaṇa 2.43.4
  अथ स्म नगरे रामः चरन् भैक्षम् गृहे वसेत् ।
  काम कारः वरम् दातुम् अपि दासम् मम आत्मजम् ॥
  atha sma nagare rāmaḥ caran bhaikṣam gṛhe vaset .
  kāma kāraḥ varam dātum api dāsam mama ātmajam .
  2002 translation by K. M. K. Murthy
  Even giving my son to her as a slave would have been better. By that Rama would have at least stayed in the house by doing the work entrusted by her and roaming about in the city, asking alms.

Declension

Neuter a-stem declension of नगर (nágara)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	नगरम् nágaram	नगरे nágare	नगराणि / नगरा¹ nágarāṇi / nágarā¹
Vocative	नगर nágara	नगरे nágare	नगराणि / नगरा¹ nágarāṇi / nágarā¹
Accusative	नगरम् nágaram	नगरे nágare	नगराणि / नगरा¹ nágarāṇi / nágarā¹
Instrumental	नगरेण nágareṇa	नगराभ्याम् nágarābhyām	नगरैः / नगरेभिः¹ nágaraiḥ / nágarebhiḥ¹
Dative	नगराय nágarāya	नगराभ्याम् nágarābhyām	नगरेभ्यः nágarebhyaḥ
Ablative	नगरात् nágarāt	नगराभ्याम् nágarābhyām	नगरेभ्यः nágarebhyaḥ
Genitive	नगरस्य nágarasya	नगरयोः nágarayoḥ	नगराणाम् nágarāṇām
Locative	नगरे nágare	नगरयोः nágarayoḥ	नगरेषु nágareṣu
Notes	¹Vedic

Adjective

नगर • (nágara)

urban

Descendants

→ Assamese: নগৰ (nôgôr)
→ Bengali: নগর (nôgôr)
→ Burmese: နဂိုရ် (na.guir); နဂရ (na.ga.ra.)
→ Gujarati: નગર (nagar)
→ Hindi: नगर (nagar)
→ Khmer: នគរ (nɔkɔɔ)
→ Kannada: ನಗರ (nagara)
→ Lao: ນະຄອນ (na khǭn)
→ Malay: negara
- Indonesian: negara
  - → English: negara
→ Marathi: नगर (nagar)
→ Sinhalese: නගරය (nagaraya)
→ Tamil: நகரம் (nakaram)
→ Telugu: నగరము (nagaramu)
→ Thai: นคร (ná-kɔɔn)
→ Urdu: نگر‎ (nagar)

References

Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 525
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992–2001), “nágara-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 5

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