# نسل
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* ن س ل (n s l)
* 1 term

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /na.sa.la/

#### Verb

نَسَلَ • (nasala) I (non-past يَنْسُلُ (yansulu), verbal noun نَسْل (nasl))
* to beget, to sire, to father, to procreate

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

* Root
* ن س ل (n s l)
* 1 term

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nasl/

#### Noun

نَسْل • (nasl) m (plural أَنْسَال (ʔansāl))
* verbal noun of نَسَلَ (nasala) (form I)
* progeny, offspring

##### Descendants

* Maltese: nisel
* → Azerbaijani: nəsil
* → Chagatai: نَسْل
** Uyghur: نەسىل (nesil)
** Uzbek: nasl
* → Hindustani:
** Hindi: नस्ल (nasla)
** Urdu: نسل (nasl)
* → Kazakh: нәсіл (näsıl)
* → Ottoman Turkish: نسل (nesl)
** Turkish: nesil
* → Pashto: نسل (nasl)
* → Persian: نسل (nasl)
* → Punjabi:
** Gurmukhi script: ਨਸਲ (nasal)
** Shahmukhi script: نَسْل (nasl)
* → Tatar: нәсел (näsel)
* → Turkmen: nesil

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

نسل (form I)
* نَسَلْ (nasal) /na.sal/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of سَأَلَ (saʔala)
* نُسَلْ (nusal) /nu.sal/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of سَأَلَ (saʔala)

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

نسل (form I)
* نَسِلْ (nasil) /na.sil/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of سَالَ (sāla)
* نَسَلْ (nasal) /na.sal/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of سَالَ (sāla)
* نُسَلْ (nusal) /nu.sal/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of سَالَ (sāla)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl, “progeny, offspring”).

### Noun

نسل • (nesl) (plural انسال (ensal))
* lineage, ancestry, stock, descent, the descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage
    Synonyms: ذریت (zürriyet), صوی (soy)
* race, breed, strain, a group of people distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics
    Synonyms: صوپ (sop), صوی (soy)
* offspring, progeny, issue, any of a person's descendants, including of further generations
    Synonym: ذریت (zürriyet)

#### Derived terms

* نسلی (nesli, “pertaining to issue and posterity”)
* نسلی منقرض اولمق (nesli münkarız olmak, “for one's whole race to die out and be extinct”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: nesil

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nesil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3526
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “nesl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 986
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نسل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1274
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stirps”, 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 1599
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نسل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5174
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nesil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نسل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2081

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

### Noun

نسل • (nasl) m
* generation

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [nasl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [näsl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [näsl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [näsl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [näsl̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [næsl̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [näsl]

### Noun

| Dari | نسل |
| Iranian Persian | نسل |
| Tajik | насл |
نسل • (nasl) (plural نسل‌ها (nasl-hâ))
* generation
    نسل‌های بعدی ― nasl-hâ-ye ba'di ― later generations
* race, kind
    نسل بشر ― nasl-e bašar ― the human race
* offspring; progeny
** late 1300s, Hafez, Poetic fragment of a panegyric attributed to Hafez‎:سال و فال و مال و حال و اصل و نسل و تخت و بخت بادت اندر شهریاری، برقرار و بر دوام سال خرّم، فال نیکو، مال وافر، حال خوش اصل ثابت، نسل باقی، تخت عالی، بخت رامsāl u fāl u māl u hāl u asl u nasl u taxt u baxt bād-at andar šahryārī, bar qarār u bar dawām sāl-i xurram, fāl-i nēkū, māl-i wāfir, hāl-i xwaš, asl-i sābit, nasl-i bāqī, taxt-i ālī, baxt-i rāmYears, fate, property, condition, ancestry, progeny, throne, destiny May you have in your regal status, stable and eternal; Joyful years, a fortunate fate, abundant property, a happy condition, Steadfast ancestry, durable progeny, a sublime throne, an obedient destiny.(Classical Persian transliteration)

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

### Noun

نَسْل • (nasl) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਸਲ)
* ethnicity, people, stock

#### Synonyms

* (people): قوم (qaum)

### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “نسل”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nəsl/

### Noun

نسل • (nasl) f (Hindi spelling नस्ल)
* race, ethnic group
* family, lineage
    Synonyms: ونش (vanś), خاندان (xāndān)
* stock, breed (of animal)
* generation
    Synonym: پیڑھی (pīṛhī)

#### Derived terms

* نسل پرست (nasl parast)
* نسل پرستی (nasl parastī)

### References

* “نسل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “نسل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نسل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Urdu نسل (nasl).

### Noun

نسل (nasl)
* race, ethnic group
* family, lineage
* generation