نیسان

See also: نيسان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

نیسان • (nisan)

1. (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.ˈsɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näj.sɑ́ːn]

• (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

Dari	نَیسان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	найсон

نَیسان • (neysân)

1. (Syriac calendar) April

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