# نرد
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Clipping of نَرْدَشِير (nardašīr) or from Persian نرد (nard)

#### Alternative forms

* نَرْدَشِير (nardašīr) (obsolete)

#### Noun

نَرْد • (nard) m
* (collective) dice; game with dice
    Synonym: زَهْر (zahr)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

نرد (form I)
* نَرُدُّ (naruddu) /na.rud.du/: first-person plural non-past active indicative of رَدَّ (radda)
* نُرَدُّ (nuraddu) /nu.rad.du/: first-person plural non-past passive indicative of رَدَّ (radda)
* نَرُدَّ (narudda) /na.rud.da/: first-person plural non-past active subjunctive/jussive of رَدَّ (radda)
* نُرَدَّ (nuradda) /nu.rad.da/: first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive/jussive of رَدَّ (radda)
* نَرُدِّ (naruddi) /na.rud.di/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of رَدَّ (radda)
* نُرَدِّ (nuraddi) /nu.rad.di/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of رَدَّ (radda)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

نرد (form I)
* نَرِدُ (naridu) /na.ri.du/: first-person plural non-past active indicative of وَرَدَ (warada)
* نَرِدَ (narida) /na.ri.da/: first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of وَرَدَ (warada)
* نَرِدْ (narid) /na.rid/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of وَرَدَ (warada)

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

نرد (form IV)
* نُرِدْ (nurid) /nu.rid/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَرَادَ (ʔarāda)
* نُرَدْ (nurad) /nu.rad/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَرَادَ (ʔarāda)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نرد (nard, “backgammon”).

### Noun

نرد • (nerd)
* backgammon, a board game for two players

#### Descendants

* Turkish: nerd

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nerd”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4052
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fritillus”, 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, Vienna, column 617
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نرد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5160
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نرد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2079

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* نردشیر (nardašir)

### Etymology

From earlier نردشیر (nardašir), from Middle Persian nywʾlthšyl (nēw-ardaxšīr, “backgammon”).

### Noun

نرد • (nard) (plural نردها (nard-hâ))
* backgammon

#### Derived terms

* تخته نرد (taxte-nard)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: nərd
* → Arabic: نَرْد (nard)
* → Georgian: ნარდი (nardi)
** → Armenian: նարդի (nardi)
** → Russian: нарды (nardy)
*** → Latvian: nardi
*** → Lithuanian: nardai
*** → Mongolian: нарды (nardy)
* → Kazakh: нарт (nart)
* → Middle Armenian: նարտ (nart)
** Armenian: նարտ (nart)
* → Ottoman Turkish: نرد (nerd)
** Turkish: nerd
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਨਰਦ (narad)
    Shahmukhi script: نرد (nard)
* → Slovak: nardy
* → Tatar: нәрәтә (närätä)
* → Urdu: نرد (nard)

### Noun

نرد • (nard) (plural نردها (nard-hâ))
* (archaic) tree trunk

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرد (nard).

### Noun

نرد • (nard) m
* counter
* board game; chess, draughts, checkers
* backgammon