नशा
Appearance
Hindi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian نشئه (naš'a, “drunk; intoxicated”), from Arabic نَشْأَة (našʔa), from the root ن ش ء (n-š-ʔ). Compare Assamese নিচা (nisa), Bengali নেশা (neśa), Gujarati નશો (naśo).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]नशा • (naśā) m (Urdu spelling نشہ)
- (indeclinable) intoxication; drunkenness
- नशा उतरना ― naśā utarnā ― to become sober
- alcohol; alcoholic beverage
- drug; narcotic
- (figurative) obsession; delusion
Declension
[edit]Declension of नशा (masc ā-stem)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “नशा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press