# ناصر
## Arabic
### Etymology

Derived from the active participle of the verb نَصَرَ (naṣara).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naː.sˤir/

### Adjective

نَاصِر • (nāṣir) (feminine نَاصِرَة (nāṣira), masculine plural نَاصِرُونَ (nāṣirūna), feminine plural نَاصِرَات (nāṣirāt))
* active participle of نَصَرَ (naṣara)

#### Derived terms

* النَّاصِر (an-nāṣir)
** عَبْد النَّاصِر (ʕabd an-nāṣir)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: nasir
* → Chagatai: ناصر
** Uyghur: ناسىر (nasir)
** Uzbek: nosir
* → Ottoman Turkish: ناصر (nâsır)
** Turkish: nasır
* → Persian: ناصر (nâser)
* → Urdu: ناصر (nāsir)

### Proper noun

نَاصِر • (nāṣir) m
* a male given name, Nasir or Nasser

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: Nasir
* → Bashkir: Насир (Nasir)
* → Bengali: নাসির (naśir)
* → Chagatai: ناصر
** Uyghur: ناسىر (nasir)
** Uzbek: Nosir
* → Northern Kurdish: Nasir
* → Ottoman Turkish: ناصر (Nâsır)
** Turkish: Nasır
* → Persian: ناصر (nâser)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic نَاصِر (nāṣir, “helper, aide”).

#### Noun

ناصر • (nâsır) (definite accusative ناصری (nâsırı), plural ناصرلر (nâsırlar))
* helper, aide, assistant, auxiliary, a person who assists or helps someone else
    Synonyms: دستیار (destyar), معاون (muʼavin), یاردمجی (yardımcı)
* tributary, affluent, a water stream that flows into a river or other body of water

##### Descendants

* Turkish: nasır

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nasır1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3494
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “nâsır”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 966
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ناصر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1261
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Auxiliator”, 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 110
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ناصر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5101
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ناصر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2064

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

ناصر • (nasır)
* Alternative spelling of ناصور (nasır, nasur, “corn, callus”)

#### Further reading

* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ناصر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2064

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَاصِر (nāṣir).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /nɑː.sɪɾ/
* Rhymes: -ɪɾ

### Noun

ناصِر • (nāsir) m (Hindi spelling नासिर)
* defender, assistant, helper, deliverer, ally

### Further reading

* “ناصر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “ناصر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* “ناصر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.