نسل

See also: نشل and Appendix:Arabic roots/ن ش ل

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن س ل (n s l)
6 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.sa.la/

Verb

نَسَلَ • (nasala) I (non-past يَنْسُلُ (yansulu), verbal noun نَسْل (nasl))

1. to beget, to sire, to father, to procreate

Conjugation

Conjugation of نَسَلَ (I, sound, a ~ u, full passive, verbal noun نَسْل)

verbal noun الْمَصْدَر						نَسْل nasl
active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل						نَاسِل nāsil
passive participle اِسْم الْمَفْعُول						مَنْسُول mansūl
active voice الْفِعْل الْمَعْلُوم
		singular الْمُفْرَد				dual الْمُثَنَّى				plural الْجَمْع
		1st person الْمُتَكَلِّم	2nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3rd person الْغَائِب		1st person الْمُتَكَلِّم	2nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3rd person الْغَائِب		1st person الْمُتَكَلِّم	2nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3rd person الْغَائِب
past indicative (perfect) الْمَاضِي	m	نَسَلْتُ nasaltu	نَسَلْتَ nasalta	نَسَلَ nasala		نَسَلْنَا nasalnā	نَسَلْتُمَا nasaltumā	نَسَلَا nasalā		نَسَلْنَا nasalnā	نَسَلْتُمْ nasaltum	نَسَلُوا nasalū
	f		نَسَلْتِ nasalti	نَسَلَتْ nasalat				نَسَلَتَا nasalatā			نَسَلْتُنَّ nasaltunna	نَسَلْنَ nasalna
non-past indicative (imperfect) الْمُضَارِع الْمَرْفُوع	m	أَنْسُلُ ʔansulu	تَنْسُلُ tansulu	يَنْسُلُ yansulu		نَنْسُلُ nansulu	تَنْسُلَانِ tansulāni	يَنْسُلَانِ yansulāni		نَنْسُلُ nansulu	تَنْسُلُونَ tansulūna	يَنْسُلُونَ yansulūna
	f		تَنْسُلِينَ tansulīna	تَنْسُلُ tansulu				تَنْسُلَانِ tansulāni			تَنْسُلْنَ tansulna	يَنْسُلْنَ yansulna
subjunctive الْمُضَارِع الْمَنْصُوب	m	أَنْسُلَ ʔansula	تَنْسُلَ tansula	يَنْسُلَ yansula		نَنْسُلَ nansula	تَنْسُلَا tansulā	يَنْسُلَا yansulā		نَنْسُلَ nansula	تَنْسُلُوا tansulū	يَنْسُلُوا yansulū
	f		تَنْسُلِي tansulī	تَنْسُلَ tansula				تَنْسُلَا tansulā			تَنْسُلْنَ tansulna	يَنْسُلْنَ yansulna
jussive الْمُضَارِع الْمَجْزُوم	m	أَنْسُلْ ʔansul	تَنْسُلْ tansul	يَنْسُلْ yansul		نَنْسُلْ nansul	تَنْسُلَا tansulā	يَنْسُلَا yansulā		نَنْسُلْ nansul	تَنْسُلُوا tansulū	يَنْسُلُوا yansulū
	f		تَنْسُلِي tansulī	تَنْسُلْ tansul				تَنْسُلَا tansulā			تَنْسُلْنَ tansulna	يَنْسُلْنَ yansulna
imperative الْأَمْر	m		اُنْسُلْ unsul				اُنْسُلَا unsulā				اُنْسُلُوا unsulū
	f		اُنْسُلِي unsulī								اُنْسُلْنَ unsulna
passive voice الْفِعْل الْمَجْهُول
		singular الْمُفْرَد				dual الْمُثَنَّى				plural الْجَمْع
		1st person الْمُتَكَلِّم	2nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3rd person الْغَائِب		1st person الْمُتَكَلِّم	2nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3rd person الْغَائِب		1st person الْمُتَكَلِّم	2nd person الْمُخَاطَب	3rd person الْغَائِب
past indicative (perfect) الْمَاضِي	m	نُسِلْتُ nusiltu	نُسِلْتَ nusilta	نُسِلَ nusila		نُسِلْنَا nusilnā	نُسِلْتُمَا nusiltumā	نُسِلَا nusilā		نُسِلْنَا nusilnā	نُسِلْتُمْ nusiltum	نُسِلُوا nusilū
	f		نُسِلْتِ nusilti	نُسِلَتْ nusilat				نُسِلَتَا nusilatā			نُسِلْتُنَّ nusiltunna	نُسِلْنَ nusilna
non-past indicative (imperfect) الْمُضَارِع الْمَرْفُوع	m	أُنْسَلُ ʔunsalu	تُنْسَلُ tunsalu	يُنْسَلُ yunsalu		نُنْسَلُ nunsalu	تُنْسَلَانِ tunsalāni	يُنْسَلَانِ yunsalāni		نُنْسَلُ nunsalu	تُنْسَلُونَ tunsalūna	يُنْسَلُونَ yunsalūna
	f		تُنْسَلِينَ tunsalīna	تُنْسَلُ tunsalu				تُنْسَلَانِ tunsalāni			تُنْسَلْنَ tunsalna	يُنْسَلْنَ yunsalna
subjunctive الْمُضَارِع الْمَنْصُوب	m	أُنْسَلَ ʔunsala	تُنْسَلَ tunsala	يُنْسَلَ yunsala		نُنْسَلَ nunsala	تُنْسَلَا tunsalā	يُنْسَلَا yunsalā		نُنْسَلَ nunsala	تُنْسَلُوا tunsalū	يُنْسَلُوا yunsalū
	f		تُنْسَلِي tunsalī	تُنْسَلَ tunsala				تُنْسَلَا tunsalā			تُنْسَلْنَ tunsalna	يُنْسَلْنَ yunsalna
jussive الْمُضَارِع الْمَجْزُوم	m	أُنْسَلْ ʔunsal	تُنْسَلْ tunsal	يُنْسَلْ yunsal		نُنْسَلْ nunsal	تُنْسَلَا tunsalā	يُنْسَلَا yunsalā		نُنْسَلْ nunsal	تُنْسَلُوا tunsalū	يُنْسَلُوا yunsalū
	f		تُنْسَلِي tunsalī	تُنْسَلْ tunsal				تُنْسَلَا tunsalā			تُنْسَلْنَ tunsalna	يُنْسَلْنَ yunsalna

Etymology 2

Root
ن س ل (n s l)
6 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nasl/

Noun

نَسْل • (nasl) m (plural أَنْسَال (ʔansāl))

1. verbal noun of نَسَلَ (nasala) (form I)
2. progeny, offspring

Declension

Declension of noun نَسْل (nasl)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	نَسْل nasl	النَّسْل an-nasl	نَسْل nasl
nominative	نَسْلٌ naslun	النَّسْلُ an-naslu	نَسْلُ naslu
accusative	نَسْلًا naslan	النَّسْلَ an-nasla	نَسْلَ nasla
genitive	نَسْلٍ naslin	النَّسْلِ an-nasli	نَسْلِ nasli
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	نَسْلَيْن naslayn	النَّسْلَيْن an-naslayn	نَسْلَيْ naslay
nominative	نَسْلَانِ naslāni	النَّسْلَانِ an-naslāni	نَسْلَا naslā
accusative	نَسْلَيْنِ naslayni	النَّسْلَيْنِ an-naslayni	نَسْلَيْ naslay
genitive	نَسْلَيْنِ naslayni	النَّسْلَيْنِ an-naslayni	نَسْلَيْ naslay
plural	basic broken plural triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أَنْسَال ʔansāl	الْأَنْسَال al-ʔansāl	أَنْسَال ʔansāl
nominative	أَنْسَالٌ ʔansālun	الْأَنْسَالُ al-ʔansālu	أَنْسَالُ ʔansālu
accusative	أَنْسَالًا ʔansālan	الْأَنْسَالَ al-ʔansāla	أَنْسَالَ ʔansāla
genitive	أَنْسَالٍ ʔansālin	الْأَنْسَالِ al-ʔansāli	أَنْسَالِ ʔansāli

Descendants

• Maltese: nisel
• → Azerbaijani: nəsil
• → Bashkir: нәҫел (näśil)
• → Chagatai: نَسْل (nsl)
  • Uyghur: نەسىل (nesil)
  • Uzbek: nasl
• → Chuvash: несӗл (nes̬ĕl)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: नस्ल (nasla)
  • Urdu: نَسْل (nasl)
• → Kazakh: нәсіл (näsil)
• → Ottoman Turkish: نسل (nesl)
  • Turkish: nesil
• → Pashto: نسل (nasl)
• → Persian: نسل (nasl)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਨਸਲ (nasal)
  • Shahmukhi script: نَسْل (nasl)
• → Tatar: нәсел (näsel)
• → Turkmen: nesil

Etymology 3

Verb

نسل (form I)

1. inflection of سَأَلَ (saʔala):
   1. نَسَلْ (nasal) /na.sal/: first-person dual/plural non-past active jussive
   2. نُسَلْ (nusal) /nu.sal/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive jussive

Etymology 4

Verb

نسل (form I)

1. inflection of سَالَ (sāla):
   1. نَسِلْ (nasil) /na.sil/ or نَسَلْ (nasal) /na.sal/: first-person dual/plural non-past active jussive
   2. نُسَلْ (nusal) /nu.sal/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive jussive

Etymology 5

Verb

نسل (form IV)

1. inflection of أَسَلَّ (ʔasalla):
   1. non-past active:
      1. نُسِلُّ (nusillu) /nu.sil.lu/: first-person dual/plural non-past active indicative
      2. نُسِلَّ (nusilla) /nu.sil.la/: first-person dual/plural non-past active subjunctive/jussive
      3. نُسِلِّ (nusilli) /nu.sil.li/: first-person dual/plural non-past active jussive
   2. non-past passive:
      1. نُسَلُّ (nusallu) /nu.sal.lu/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive indicative
      2. نُسَلَّ (nusalla) /nu.sal.la/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive subjunctive/jussive
      3. نُسَلِّ (nusalli) /nu.sal.li/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive jussive

Etymology 6

Verb

نسل (form I)

1. inflection of سَلَّ (salla):
   1. non-past active:
      1. نَسُلُّ (nasullu) /na.sul.lu/: first-person dual/plural non-past active indicative
      2. نَسُلَّ (nasulla) /na.sul.la/: first-person dual/plural non-past active subjunctive/jussive
      3. نَسُلِّ (nasulli) /na.sul.li/: first-person dual/plural non-past active jussive
   2. non-past passive:
      1. نُسَلُّ (nusallu) /nu.sal.lu/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive indicative
      2. نُسَلَّ (nusalla) /nu.sal.la/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive subjunctive/jussive
      3. نُسَلِّ (nusalli) /nu.sal.li/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive jussive
2. inflection of سُلَّ (sulla):
   1. نُسَلُّ (nusallu) /nu.sal.lu/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive indicative
   2. نُسَلَّ (nusalla) /nu.sal.la/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive subjunctive/jussive
   3. نُسَلِّ (nusalli) /nu.sal.li/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive jussive

Etymology 7

Verb

نسل (form I)

1. inflection of سَلَا (salā):
   1. نَسْلُ (naslu) /nas.lu/: first-person dual/plural non-past active jussive
   2. نُسْلَ (nusla) /nus.la/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive jussive

Etymology 8

Verb

نسل (form II)

1. inflection of سَلَّى (sallā):
   1. نُسَلِّ (nusalli) /nu.sal.li/: first-person dual/plural non-past active jussive
   2. نُسَلَّ (nusalla) /nu.sal.la/: first-person dual/plural non-past passive jussive

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl, “progeny, offspring”).

Noun

نسل • (nesl) (plural انسال (ensal))

1. lineage, ancestry, stock, descent, the descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage

   Synonyms: ذریت (zürriyet), صوی (soy)

2. race, breed, strain, a group of people distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics

   Synonyms: صوپ (sop), صوی (soy)

3. offspring, progeny, issue, any of a person's descendants, including of further generations

   Synonym: ذریت (zürriyet)

Derived terms

• نسلی (nesli, “pertaining to issue and posterity”)
• نسلی منقرض اولمق (nesli münkarız olmak, “for one's whole race to die out and be extinct”)

Descendants

• Turkish: nesil

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “nesil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3526
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “nesl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 986
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “نسل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1274
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Stirps”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1599
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “نسل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5174
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “nesil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “نسل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2081

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Noun

نسل • (nasl) m

1. generation

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈnasl/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näsl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näsl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [näsl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [näsl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næsl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [näsl]

• Rhymes: -asl

Readings
Classical reading?	nasl
Dari reading?	nasl
Iranian reading?	nasl
Tajik reading?	nasl

Noun

Dari	نسل
Iranian Persian
Tajik	насл

نسل • (nasl) (plural نسل‌ها (nasl-hā / nasl-hâ), Tajik spelling насл)

1. generation

   نسل‌های بعدی ― nasl-hâ-ye ba'di ― later generations

2. race, kind

   Synonym: نژاد (nežâd)

   نسل بشر ― nasl-e bašar ― the human race

3. offspring; progeny
   • late 1300s, Hafez, Poetic fragment of a panegyric attributed to Hafez‎^[6], archived from the original on 27 September 2026:

     سال و فال و مال و حال و اصل و نسل و تخت و بخت
     بادت اندر شهریاری، برقرار و بر دوام
     سال خرّم، فال نیکو، مال وافر، حال خوش
     اصل ثابت، نسل باقی، تخت عالی، بخت رام

     sāl u fāl u māl u hāl u asl u nasl u taxt u baxt
     bād-at andar šahryārī, bar qarār u bar dawām
     sāl-i xurram, fāl-i nēkū, māl-i wāfir, hāl-i xwaš,
     asl-i sābit, nasl-i bāqī, taxt-i ālī, baxt-i rām

     Years, fate, property, condition, ancestry, progeny, throne, destiny
     May you have in your regal status, stable and eternal;
     Joyful years, a fortunate fate, abundant property, a happy condition,
     Steadfast ancestry, durable progeny, a sublime throne, an obedient destiny.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Noun

نَسْل • (nasl) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਸਲ)

1. ethnicity, people, stock

Synonyms

• (people): قوم (qaum)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “نسل”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْل (nasl).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nəsl/

Noun

نَسْل • (nasl) f (Hindi spelling नस्ल)

1. race, ethnic group
2. family, lineage

   Synonyms: ونش (vanś), خاندان (xāndān)

3. stock, breed (of animal)
4. generation

   Synonym: پیڑھی (pīṛhī)

Derived terms

• نسل پرست (nasl parast)
• نسل پرستی (nasl parastī)

References

• “نسل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “نسل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “نسل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu نسل (nasl).

Noun

نسل (nasl)

1. race, ethnic group
2. family, lineage
3. generation