nisan

From Malay nisan, from Classical Persian نشان (nišān), نیشان (nīšān, “sign, mark”), from Middle Persian nyšʾn' (nīšān, “sign, mark, banner”), nyš (nīš-).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈni.san]
• Hyphenation: ni‧san

nisan (plural nisan-nisan)

1. tombstone

• “nisan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

nisan

1. Rōmaji transcription of にさん

From Classical Persian نشان (nišān), نیشان (nīšān, “sign, mark”), from Middle Persian nyšʾn' (nīšān, “sign, mark, banner”), nyš (nīš-).

nisan (plural nisan-nisan or nisan²)

1. tombstone

   Synonyms: misan, batu nisan

Elision of manisan, itself an ellipsis of manisan lebah (lit. 'bee-sweet'); from manis +‎ -an. Doublet of manisan and misan.

nisan (Jawi spelling نيسن, plural nisan-nisan or nisan²)

1. honey

   Synonyms: air lebah, madu, manisan lebah, misan, ningsan

2. (Kelantan-Pattani) a kind of palm sugar made from coconut flower sap

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “نشان nisjan”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 139
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “نيسن nisan or nesan”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 676
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “nesan”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 169
• Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018), “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish نیسان (nisan), borrowed from Arabic نَيْسَان (naysān), borrowed from Classical Syriac ܢܝܣܢ (nīsān), from Aramaic נִיסָן (nīsān), borrowed from Akkadian 𒌚𒁈 (nisannum).

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nisan (definite accusative nisanı, plural nisanlar)

1. April