نقره

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْرَة (nuqra).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /nuq.ˈra/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nʊq.ɾá]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nʊq.ɾá]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nuq.ɾá]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [noʁ.ɹé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nuq.ɾá]

Readings
Classical reading^?	nuqra
Dari reading^?	nuqra
Iranian reading^?	noġre
Tajik reading^?	nuqra

Noun

نقره • (nuqra / noġre) (Tajik spelling нуқра)

silver (metal)
Synonym: (literary) سیم (sīm / sim)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 178:
  زر و نقره گر نبودندی نهان / پرورش کی یافتندی زیر کان
  zarr u nuqra gar nabūdanī nihān / parwariš kay yāftandī zēr-i kān
  If gold and silver were not hidden, how would they get nourishment [grow and ripen] in the mine?
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

نقره‌ای (nuqra-ī / noġre-i)

See also

برنز (boronz, “bronze”)
طلا (tilā / talâ, “gold”)

References

• ↑ Gharib, B. (1995), “n'krtk-(w)”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 231