نرخ

See also: نرج and نرح

Arabic

Verb

نرخ (form I)

  1. نَرُخُّ (naruḵḵu) /na.rux.xu/: first-person plural non-past active indicative of رَخَّ (raḵḵa)
  2. نُرَخُّ (nuraḵḵu) /nu.rax.xu/: first-person plural non-past passive indicative of رَخَّ (raḵḵa)
  3. نَرُخَّ (naruḵḵa) /na.rux.xa/: first-person plural non-past active subjunctive/jussive of رَخَّ (raḵḵa)
  4. نُرَخَّ (nuraḵḵa) /nu.rax.xa/: first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive/jussive of رَخَّ (raḵḵa)
  5. نَرُخِّ (naruḵḵi) /na.rux.xi/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of رَخَّ (raḵḵa)
  6. نُرَخِّ (nuraḵḵi) /nu.rax.xi/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of رَخَّ (raḵḵa)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • نارق (nark)

Etymology

From Classical Persian نرخ (narx).

Noun

نرخ • (narh)

  1. (business) officially prescribed price, fixed price, price cap, tariff
    • 1909 February 11, “اكمك مسئله‌سی [ekmek meselesi]”, in Tanin, page 4, column 1:
      اكمك قومیسیوننده نرخك قالدیریه‌رق هر صنف اهالینك ایستدیكی شكلده اكمك طبخ ایده‌بیلملری ایچون بر قرار اتخاذ ایدلدیكنی یازمشدق.
      Ekmek komisyonunda narhın kaldırılarak her sınıf ahalinin istediği şekilde ekmek tabh edebilmeleri için bir karar ittihaz edildiğini yazmıştık.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

  • Turkish: narh, nark
  • Romanian: nart

Further reading

Persian

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? nirx, narx
Dari reading? nirx, narx
Iranian reading? nerx
Tajik reading? narx
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Noun

Dari نرخ
Iranian Persian
Tajik нарх

نرخ • (nerx)

  1. rate
    نرخ بیکاریnirx-i bēkārī / nerx-e bikâriunemployment rate
    نرخ تورمnirx-i tawarrum / nerx-e tavarrominflation rate
  2. price, market rate
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 152:
      بر کاکل ار بستی گره جان از چه دارند اهل حال
      ور سنبلت نگشوده نرخ دل ارزان از چه شد
      bar kākul ar bastī girih jān az či dārand ahl-i hāl
      w-ar sunbulat na-gušūda nirx-i dil arzān az či šud
      If you have knotted your bangs of hair, how can the wise ones of today still be alive [and not die of love for you]?
      And if you have not opened your hyacinth[-like hair], how can the market price of the heart be [so] cheap?
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: nirx
    • Armenian: նիրխ (nirx)
  • Chagatai: نرخ (nrx /⁠närx⁠/)
    • Uzbek: narx
    • Uyghur: نەرق (nerq)
  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: निर्ख़ (nirx)
    Urdu: نِرْخ (nirx)
  • Kazakh: нарық (naryq)
  • Kyrgyz: нарк (nark)
  • Ottoman Turkish: نرخ (narh), نارق (nark), نارق (nark)
  • Turkmen: nyrh

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نرخ (nirx). Compare Bengali নিরিখ (nirikh), Malayalam നിരക്ക് (nirakkŭ).

Noun

نِرْخ • (nirxm (Hindi spelling निर्ख़)

  1. price, rate, cost