As a Hindi name
नागर · adj
नगर संबंधी · नगर में रहनेवाला या बोला जानेवाला · नगर में उत्पन्न या घोषित (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
नागर · noun · masculine
नगर में रहनेवाला मनुष्य · चतुर आदमी । सभ्य, शिष्ट और निपुण व्यक्ति · देवर — Śabdasāgara
नागर · nāgar · s.m.
(dialec.) = nāgal, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1116
नागर · nāgara · adj.
(f. -ī), Relating or belonging to a city or town; civic; urban; town-born, town-bred — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1117
Cited formation "नागर" is ना + -गर: ना means "not; don't; do not (subjunctive negation)", and the suffix -गर forms 'dealing in' (agent nouns). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §10(2) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "नागर" is ना- + गर: गर means "synonym of अगर (agar, “if”)", and the prefix ना- forms without. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §5(2) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a prince engaged in war under partic. circumstances (opp. to yāyin &c. and also applied to planets opposed to each other)
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
nāgara mf(ī)n. (fr. nagara) town-born, t˚-bred, relating or belonging to a t˚ or city, t˚-like, civic, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
spoken in a t˚ (said of a partic. Apabhraṃśa dialect; cf. upa-n˚), Sāh.
polite, civil, Śak. v, 1/2 (v.l. for ˚rika)
clever, dexterous, cunning, Dhūrtan.
bad, vile, L.
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