نشان

From Persian نشان‎ (nešān).

نشان • (nişan)

1. sign
2. mark
3. stamp
4. target
5. aim
6. symbol
7. indicator
8. decoration

• نیشان‎ (nišân)

From earlier نیشان‎ (nišân), from Middle Persian nyšʾn' (nīšān, “sign, mark, banner”) (compare Manichaean Middle Persian nyšʾn (nīšān), Manichaean Parthian nyšʾn, Old Armenian loanword նշան (nšan), Kurdish nîşan, نیشان‎ (nîşan), from nyš (nīš-) (compare Old Armenian նիշ (niš), Classical Syriac ܢܝܫܐ‎ (nīšāʾ), Hebrew נֵס‎ (nēs), loanwords from Iranian).

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /nɪˈʃɒːn/
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [neˈʃɒn]

نشان • (nešân) (plural نشان‌ها‎ (nešân-hâ))

1. sign, mark
2. aim, target, butt
3. medal, order, decoration
4. banner, flag, standard, ensign
5. coat of arms

• نشانه‎ (nešâne)
• نشانی‎ (nešâni)
• بی‌نشان‎ (bê-nešân)
• بدنشان‎ (bad-nešân)
• نشان دادن‎ (nešân dâdan)
• نشان کردن‎ (nešân kardan)
• نشان‌شناسی‎ (nešân-šenâsi)
• خط و نشان کشیدن‎ (xatt-o-nešân kešidan)

(some may be from Middle Persian)

• Arabic: نيشان‎ (nīšān)
• Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܢܝܫܢܐ‎ (nīšānāʾ)
  • Mandaic: ࡍࡉࡔࡀࡍ‎ (nišan)
• Azerbaijani: nişan
• Crimean Tatar: nişan
• Georgian: ნიშანი (nišani)
• Hindustani:
  • Hindi: निशान (nišān)
  • Urdu: نشان‎ (nišān)
• Marathi: निशाण (niśāṇa)
• Ottoman Turkish: نشان‎ (nişan)
  • Albanian: nishan
  • Bulgarian: нишан (nišan)
  • French: nichan
  • Greek: νισάνι (nisáni)
  • Old East Slavic: нишанъ (nišanŭ)
    • Russian: нишан (nišan)
  • Romanian: nișam
  • Serbo-Croatian: nišan / нишан
  • Turkish: nişan
• Punjabi: نشان‎ (nišān)
• Turkmen: nyşan
• Uzbek: nishon

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “نشان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “nīšān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

From Persian.

نشان • (nišān) m (Hindi spelling निशान)

1. mark, impression