نگاه

See also: نگاہ, نكاه, and نګاه

Persian

Alternative forms

• نگه (negah) (oftener in bookish or literary-style compound verbs such as نگه کردن and نگه داشتن)

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *ni- + *kas- (“to look, appear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”) + *kʷeḱ- (“to see; to look”).^[1] Related to آگاه (âgâh), and dialectal گاس (gâs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ni.ɡɑːh]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nɪ.ɡɑːʱ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nɪ.ɡɑːʱ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nɪ.ɡɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ni.ɡɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ne.ɡɒːʱ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ni.ɡɔʱ]

Readings
Classical reading?	nigāh
Dari reading?	nigāh
Iranian reading?	negâh
Tajik reading?	nigoh

Noun

Dari	نگاه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	нигоҳ

نگاه • (negâh)^[2][3]

1. look, glance
2. observation
3. custody, watch, care, caution

Derived terms

• نگاه افکندن (negâh afkandan)
• نگاه انداختن (negâh andâxtan)
• نگاه داشتن (negâh dâštan)
• نگاه دزدیدن (negâh dozdidan)
• نگاه کردن (negâh kardan)
• نگاهبان (negâhbân)
• نگاهبانی (negâhbâni)
• نگاهدار (negâhdâr)
• نگاهداری (negâhdâri)

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: nigah
• → Gujarati: નિગાહ (nigāh)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: निगाह (nigāh)

  Urdu: نگاہ (nigāh)

• → Ottoman Turkish: نگاه (nigâh)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਨਿਗਾਹ (nigāh)
  • Shahmukhi script: نگاہ (nigāh)
• → Pashto: نګاه (nigāh)
• → Uzbek: nigoh

References

1. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 246
2. Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نگاه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, volume 2, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim, pages 1107–1108
3. Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نگاه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul