# نرگس
## Chagatai
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نرگس.

### Noun

نرگس (transliteration needed)
* narcissus

#### Related terms

* نرگس شهلا

#### Descendants

* Uyghur: نەرگىس (nergis)
* Uzbek: nargis

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* نرجس (narjes) (via Arabic)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nlgs /⁠nargis⁠/), from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [naɾ.ɡis]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [näɾ.ɡɪs]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [näɾ.ɡɪs]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [näɾ.ɡɪs]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [näɾ.ɡis]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [næɹˈɡʲes]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [näɾ.ɡis]

### Noun

نرگس • (narges) (plural نرگس‌ها (narges-hâ))
* narcissus
** 1003-1077, Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama
    چون از آن جا گذشتیم، به صحرایی رسیدیم که همه نرگس بود شکفته، چنان که تمامتِ آن صحرا سپید می‌نمود از بسیاریِ نرگس‌ها.When we passed from that place, we arrived at the field where all the narcissi were cheerful so that the entire field appeared white from the multitude of narcissi.
* (poetic) the eye of a beauty, beloved, or mistress

#### Derived terms

* نرگس شهلا (narges-e šahlâ)
* نرگسدان (nargesdân)
* نرگسزار (nargeszâr)
* نرگسستان (nargesestân)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: nərgiz
* → Bashkir: нәркәс (nərkəs)
* → Bengali: নার্গিস (nargis)
* → Chagatai: نرگس
** Uyghur: نەرگىس (nergis)
** Uzbek: nargis
* → Georgian: ნარგიზი (nargizi)
* → Gujarati: નરગિસ (nargis)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: नरगिस (nargis)
    Urdu: نَرْگِس (nargis)
* → Kazakh: нәркес (närkes)
* → Middle Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիզ (narkiz), նարգէզ (nargēz), ներկիս (nerkis)
** Armenian: նարգիզ (nargiz), նարկիս (narkis) — Western Armenian, literary, նարկիզ (narkiz) — obsolete spelling
* → Malay: nargis
* → Ottoman Turkish: نرگس (nergis)
** Turkish: nergis
* → Punjabi:
    Shahmukhi script: نَرگِس (nargis)
    Gurmukhi script: ਨਰਗਿਸ (nargis)
* → Pashto: نرګس (nargis)
* → Sindhi:
    Arabic script: نرگس (nargasi)
    Devanagari script: नर्गसि (nargasi)
* → Turkmen: nerkes

### Proper noun

نرگس • (narges)
* a female given name, Narges, Nargess, or Nargis, from Middle Persian

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: Nərgiz
* → Bashkir: Нәркәс (Nərkəs)

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نرگس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نرگس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

### Noun

نَرگِس • (nargis) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਰਗਿਸ)
* narcissus
* the eye of a beloved

### Further reading

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

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرگس (nargis), ultimately from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

### Noun

نَرگِس • (nargasi) f (Devanagari नर्गसि)
* narcissus

### Further reading

* Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “نرگس”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
* “نرگس”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نَرْگِس (nargis).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /nəɾ.ɡɪs/

### Proper noun

نَرْگِس • (nargis) f (Hindi spelling नरगिस)
* a female given name, Nargis, from Persian

### Noun

نَرْگِس • (nargis) f (Hindi spelling नरगिस)
* narcissus
* (metonymically) the eye of a beloved

#### Derived terms

* نَرْگِسِ شَہْلا (nargis-i śahlā)

### Further reading

* Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “نرگس”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
* “نرگس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* “نرگس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Urdu نَرْگِس (nargis).

### Noun

نرگس (nargis)
* narcissus flower