نصیب

Borrowed from Classical Persian نَصِیب (nasīb), from Arabic نَصِيب (naṣīb).

نصیب • (nṣyb /näsīb/) (plural انصبا)

1. part, portion, share

   Synonyms: اولوش (ʾwlwš /⁠ülüš⁠/), حصه (ḥṣh /⁠hissä⁠/), بهر (bhr /⁠bähr⁠/), قسمت (qsmt /⁠qismät⁠/)

   • 1484, Ali-Shir Nava'i, فرهاد و شیرین [Farhad and Shirin], page 250b:

     اچیب اول کنج قفلین بو کلیدیم
     نصیبیم ایلا نی کیم بار امیدیم

     ʾčyb ʾwl knj qflyn bw klydym
     nṣybym ʾylā ny kym bār ʾmydym

     /ačıp ol gänj-i quflın bu kilīdim
     näsībim äylä ne kim bar ümīdim/

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 15th Century, Gadāʾī, Dīwān, line 480:

     مین کدا‌غا کرچی تیکماس شکر ایر‌نینک‌دین نصیب
     بیر چوچوک سوز باری اوزکا بولماسا حلوای عید

     myn kdā-ġā krčy tykmās škr ʾyr-nynk-dyn nṣyb
     byr čwčwk swz bāry ʾwzkā bwlmāsā ḥlwāy ʿyd

     /men gädāġa gärči tegmäs šäkkär erniŋdin näsīb
     bir čüčük söz bārī özgä bolmasa hälwā-yı ʿīd/

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. lot, fortune, destiny, fate

   Synonyms: بخت (bxt /⁠bäxt⁠/), قسمت (qsmt /⁠qismät⁠/)

• Uyghur: نېسىپ (nësip)
• Uzbek: nasib

• Bahawudun, Muhemmettursun; Gheyurani, Ghenizat; Qadir, Isma'il; Ehet, Ablimit (2002), چاغاتاي تىلىنىڭ ئىزاھلىق لۇغىتى [Explanatory Dictionary of the Chagatai Language]‎^[1] (in Uyghur), Shinjang Xelq Neshriyati, →ISBN, page 672
• Ünlü, Suat (2013), Çağatay Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Dictionary of Chagatai Turkic] (in Turkish), Konya: Eğitim Yayınevi, →ISBN, page 826

Borrowed from Arabic نَصِيب (naṣīb).

نصیب • (nasib) (definite accusative نصیبی (nasibi), plural انصبا (ensiba))

1. lot, share, portion

   Synonyms: پای (pay), حصه (hisse), قسط (kıst), قسمت (kısmet)

2. fortune, luck

   Synonym: قسمت (kısmet)

• Turkish: nasip
• → Albanian: nasip
• → Crimean Tatar: nasip

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “نصیب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2085

Borrowed from Arabic نَصِيب (naṣīb).

نصیب • (nasib) (plural نصیب‌ها)

1. part, portion, share

   Synonyms: بخش (baxš), قسمت (qesmat)

2. destiny, fortune, lot

   Synonym: سرنوشت (sarnevešt)

   • 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 113:

     بهبود چون طمع کنم و روز دلخوشی
     از بخت و طالعی که نباشد مرا نصیب

     bihbūd čūn tama' kunam u rōz-i dilxwašī
     az baxt u tāli'ē ki nabāšad ma-rā nasīb

     How can I seek happiness and a day to be cheerful
     From that fortune and fate which are not my lot?

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• → Bengali: নসীব (nośib)
• → Chagatai: نصیب (nṣyb /⁠näsīb⁠/)
  • Uyghur: نېسىپ (nësip)
  • Uzbek: nasib
• → Hindi: नसीब (nasīb)
• → Turkmen: nesip, nesibe
• → Urdu: نصیب (nasīb)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “نصیب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian نصیب (“portion, share, lot”), from Arabic نَصِيب (naṣīb).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nə.siːb/
• Rhymes: -iːb

نَصِیب • (nasīb) m (Hindi spelling नसीब)

1. fortune, destiny (see lot)

   Synonyms: قِسْمَت (qismat), بھاگْیَہ (bhāgya), لَلاٹ (lalāṭ), تَقدِیر (taqdīr)

• خوشنصیب (xūšnasīb, “fortunate”)
• بدنصیبی (badnasībī, “misfortune”)

• “نصیب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “نصیب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.