نایب

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَائِب (nāʔib).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? nāyib
Dari reading? nāyib
Iranian reading? nâyeb
Tajik reading? noyib

Noun

نایب • (nâyeb) (plural نایب‌ها, or نایبان, or نواب (novvâb))

  1. representative; delegate; deputy
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 226:
      آن که جان بخشد اگر بکشد رواست
      نایب است و دست او دست خداست
      ān ki jān baxšad agar bikušad rawā-st
      nāyib ast u dast-i ō dast-i xudā-st
      If one who bestows [spiritual] life should slay, it is allowable: he is the [Divine] vicegerent, and his hand is the hand of God.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. (in compounds, often unadapted from Arabic) vice-
    نایب‌السلطنه ― nâyeb-os-saltane ― viceroy

Descendants

  • → Armenian: նայիբ (nayib)
  • → Bengali: নায়েব (naẏeb)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: नायब (nāyab)
    Urdu: نائب (nāyab)
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