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‖ naskhi, n. pl.|ˈnæskiː|
Also nasḥi, nesk(h)i, niskhi, etc. and with capital initial.
[Arab. nasḵī, f. nasaḵa to copy.]
The normal cursive Arabic script. Also attrib. or as adj.
1771W. Jones Gram. Pers. Lang. 15 Our books are printed in the Niskhi hand, and all Arabick manuscripts, as well as most Persian and Turkish histories, are written in it; but the Persians write their poetical works in the Tâlík, which answers to the most elegant of our Italick hands. 1777J. Richardson Dict. Pers., Arab., & English p. iii/1 In this character the Alcoran was originally written: it was afterwards improved under the denomination of Cufik; and continued in use till the appearance of the Niskhi, in the tenth century of our era... The Niskhi,..with some variation and corruption, is the same which now prevails in Arabia, Persia, India, and other Eastern countries. 1807in W. Jones Wks. XIII. 416 Zafar Námeh. A most elegant history of Taimur, written in the Niskh character. 1820J. G. Jackson Acct. Timbuctoo & Housa 350 The Arabs have various modes of writing, the principal of which is that used by the Koreish, the most learned of all the Western tribes, and is denominated the Niskhi, or upright character: if this is understood, the others may be easily comprehended. 1849F. Madden tr. Silvestre's Universal Palæogr. I. 52 The Arabic Neskhi alphabet, already in use among the Arab tribes, was forced upon Persia with the Coran, and took the place of the ancient cuneiform and other writings. 1854A. Sprenger Catal. Arab., Pers. & Hindústány MSS. in Libraries of King of Oudh I. 8 Copies are not frequent, yet there are five in the Moty Mahall. The best is written in Naskhy. 1879C. Rieu Catal. Pers. MSS. in Brit. Mus. I. 7/2 The Coran in Arabic, with a Persian version written in small Nashki. 1880Encycl. Brit. XIII. 117/2 Arabic epigraphy begins with the rise of Islam. Two systems of writing were used concomitantly, the Cufic or uncial, and the Neski or running hand. 1893[see Kufic a.]. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet 271 The two main branches of the Arabic script, Naskhi and Kufic. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XII. 291/1 The earliest form of the North-Arabic script was the Kufic...in this script however many of the signs were inconveniently alike, and the so-called Nasḥî-script, in which diacritical points are used to distinguish similar letters, began to take its place as early as the 7th century a.d. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 634/1 Naskhi inscriptions are common in architecture and the decorative arts. |