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  "ar": "نكار خانم",
  "en": "Nigâr Hanım",
  "ur": "نگار خانم"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "شاعرة عثمانية، وُلدت في إسطنبول وتوفيت فيها سنة 1918، ابنة ماكار عثمان باشا النبيل المجري الأصل. تعلمت في مدرسة فرنسية بقاضي كوي وأتقنت ثماني لغات، وتزوجت في الرابعة عشرة ثم طلقت، وكان ديوانها «إفسوس» أول كتاب شعر غربي الأسلوب تنشره امرأة، فصارت رائدة الشعر النسائي الحديث في أدب التنظيمات وما بعده، وكانت صالونها ملتقى لأهل الأدب والمجتمع.",
  "en": "Ottoman poet, born at Istanbul and died there in 1918, daughter of Macar Osman Pasha, a nobleman of Hungarian origin. Educated at the French school in Kadıköy and mistress of eight languages, she was married at fourteen and later divorced; her collection Efsus was the first book of Western-style poetry published by a woman, making her a pioneer of modern women's poetry in post-Tanzimat literature, and her salon was a meeting place of literary society.",
  "ur": "عثمانی شاعرہ، استنبول میں پیدا ہوئیں اور 1918ء میں وہیں وفات پائی؛ ہنگری نژاد رئیس ماکار عثمان پاشا کی بیٹی تھیں۔ ان کا دیوان «افسوس» کسی خاتون کی مغربی اسلوب کی شاعری کی پہلی کتاب گنا جاتا ہے۔"
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   "edtf": "1856",
   "hijri": "1272",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born at Istanbul in 1856: the English, Turkish and Urdu articles all give the year 1856 at year precision, and one of Wikidata's two birth values is 1 January 1856 (its day precision is not followed, no article giving a day). Wikidata's second birth value is the year 1862 — the harvest queue's year — which no article supports; it is stated here and not followed, and the year is recorded as debated for that reason. The Hijri year 1272 is the tabular conversion of mid-1856 and is marked derived.",
   "sources": [
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   "hijri": "1336",
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   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died at Istanbul on 1 April 1918: the English and Turkish articles give this day. Wikidata carries two death values, 1 January 1918 and 1 April 1918; the record follows the articles' 1 April and states the other value here. The Hijri year 1336 is the tabular conversion of 1 April 1918 (19 Jumada al-Akhira 1336) and is marked derived.",
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    "value": "Nigâr Hanım",
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    "value": "Nigar Bint-i Osman",
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   "writer"
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   "edtf": "1856",
   "hijri": "1272",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born at Istanbul in 1856: the English, Turkish and Urdu articles all give the year 1856 at year precision, and one of Wikidata's two birth values is 1 January 1856 (its day precision is not followed, no article giving a day). Wikidata's second birth value is the year 1862 — the harvest queue's year — which no article supports; it is stated here and not followed, and the year is recorded as debated for that reason. The Hijri year 1272 is the tabular conversion of mid-1856 and is marked derived.",
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   "edtf": "1918-04-01",
   "hijri": "1336",
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   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died at Istanbul on 1 April 1918: the English and Turkish articles give this day. Wikidata carries two death values, 1 January 1918 and 1 April 1918; the record follows the articles' 1 April and states the other value here. The Hijri year 1336 is the tabular conversion of 1 April 1918 (19 Jumada al-Akhira 1336) and is marked derived.",
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    "note": "What each source gives, stated exactly: no source names a school for Nigâr Hanım herself. None of the English, Turkish or Urdu articles carries a religion field or discusses her personal religion, and Wikidata gives her religion (P140) only as the generic item Islam (Q432) — one structured-data value naming no school. Her father Macar Osman Pasha was a Hungarian-born convert (born Adolf Farkas): a father's conversion is family background and never counts for the daughter. Under the two-source rule and the doubt rule her school is therefore left unknown, with these readings preserved here.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Nigâr Hanım' (revision 1371761136), Turkish Wikipedia 'Nigâr Hanım' (revision 37430936) and Urdu Wikipedia 'نگار خانم' (revision 9658766), read on 26 October 2026, with Wikidata item Q7034181. The harvest queue's years (1862–1918) are NOT followed for the birth: every article gives 1856, and 1862 survives only as Wikidata's second, unsupported birth value; both readings are stated in the born note and the year is debated. Her father Macar Osman Pasha (Wikidata Q12344650) has no museum person record, so no child_of edge is written. No record of this person existed in the museum under any spelling, fragment or QID before this build.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "نكار خانم (1856م – 1 أبريل 1918م) شاعرة عثمانية، وُلدت في إسطنبول وتوفيت فيها، ابنة ماكار عثمان باشا النبيل ذي الأصل المجري. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-tr} تعطي المقالات الثلاث سنة 1856م لمولدها، بينما تحمل ويكيبيانات قيمة ثانية هي سنة 1862م — وهي سنة قائمة الحصاد — لا تؤيدها أي مقالة؛ يتّبع هذا السجل المقالات ويذكر القراءتين معًا. {cite:wikidata-nigar-hanim} كان ديوانها «إفسوس» أول كتاب شعر غربي الأسلوب تنشره امرأة، وتُلقّب أيضًا بنكار بنت عثمان. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "تعلمت نكار خانم في المدرسة الفرنسية بقاضي كوي وعلى أيدي معلمين خاصين، وأتقنت ثماني لغات وعزفت البيانو صغيرة. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} تزوجت في الرابعة عشرة ثم طُلقت بعد سنوات غير سعيدة، وأنجبت ابنها فريدون بك. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} بدأت شعرها على الطراز الديواني الكلاسيكي ثم مالت إلى موقف حداثي متأثر بالغرب وبتشجيع رجاي زاده محمود أكرم، وكان صالونها ملتقى لأهل الأدب والمجتمع في إسطنبول. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} مُنحت نيشان الشفقة تقديرًا لأعمالها الإنسانية، وتوفيت في إسطنبول في 1 أبريل 1918م في عزلة وألم. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأعمال",
     "markdown": "من دواوينها «إفسوس» بجزأيه و«نيران» و«عكس صدا» و«صفحات قلب» و«ألحان وطن»، ومن أعمالها مسرحية «تأثير عشق» ومذكراتها «حكاية حياتي» التي صدرت بعد وفاتها سنة 1959م. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المواقف والنقد",
     "markdown": "يُقرأ هذا القسم بوصفه عرضًا لمواقف منقولة عن المصادر، لا حكمًا من المتحف.\n\nتصفها المصادر بأنها جسر بين الشعر الديواني والحداثة الغربية الأسلوب، وأول امرأة تنشر كتاب شعر على النمط الغربي في عصرها. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} ولا يسمّي أي مصدر مذهبًا دينيًا لها بنفسها: فالمقالات الثلاث بلا حقل للديانة ولا تناقش ديانة أبيها المجري المولد إلا بوصفه نبيلًا عثمانيًا من أصل مجري، وتقتصر ويكيبيانات على قيمة عامة هي «الإسلام»، ولذلك يظل مذهبها في هذا السجل غير مُسمّى. {cite:wikidata-nigar-hanim}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المقالة الإنجليزية والتركية والأردية في ويكيبيديا عن نكار خانم، وعنصر ويكيبيانات Q7034181. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-tr} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-ur} {cite:wikidata-nigar-hanim}"
    }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Nigâr Hanım (1856 – 1 April 1918) was an Ottoman poet, born at Istanbul and died there, the daughter of Macar Osman Pasha, a nobleman of Hungarian origin. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-tr} All three articles give the year 1856 for her birth, while Wikidata carries a second value, the year 1862 — the harvest queue's year — which no article supports; this entry follows the articles and states both readings. {cite:wikidata-nigar-hanim} Her collection Efsus was the first book of Western-style poetry published by a woman, and she is also known as Nigar Bint-i Osman. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life and career",
     "markdown": "Nigâr Hanım was educated at the French school in Kadıköy and by private tutors, mastered eight languages and played the piano from childhood. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} She was married at fourteen and divorced after unhappy years, and had a son, Feridun Bey. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} She began in the classical divan style and moved towards a Western-influenced modernist stance under the influence of Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, and her Istanbul salon drew literary society. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} She received the Order of Charity (Şefkat Nişanı) for her humanitarian work and died at Istanbul on 1 April 1918, in isolation and pain. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Works",
     "markdown": "Her collections include Efsus (in two parts), Nîrân, Aks-i Sada, Safahat-ı Kalb and Elhan-ı Vatan; she also wrote the play Tesir-i Aşk and the memoir Hayatımın Hikâyesi, published posthumously in 1959. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Positions and criticism",
     "markdown": "This section is read as a presentation of positions reported from the sources, not as a verdict of the museum.\n\nThe sources present her as a bridge between divan poetry and Western-style modernism, and as the first woman of her era to publish a book of poetry in the Western style. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} No source names a religious school for the woman herself: none of the three articles carries a religion field, her Hungarian-born father is described only as an Ottoman nobleman of Hungarian origin, and Wikidata gives only the generic value Islam, so her school is left unnamed in this entry. {cite:wikidata-nigar-hanim}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- The English, Turkish and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Nigâr Hanım, and Wikidata item Q7034181. {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-tr} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-ur} {cite:wikidata-nigar-hanim}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "نگار خانم (پیدائش: استنبول، 1856ء – وفات: استنبول، 1 اپریل 1918ء) عثمانی شاعرہ اور ہنگری نژاد رئیس ماکار عثمان پاشا کی بیٹی تھیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-ur} تینوں مضامین ان کی پیدائش 1856ء دیتے ہیں، جبکہ ویکی ڈیٹا ایک دوسری قیمت 1862ء بھی دیتا ہے جس کی کوئی مضمون تائید نہیں کرتا؛ اس اندراج میں 1856ء اختیار کی گئی ہے اور دونوں قیمتیں درج ہیں۔ {cite:wikidata-nigar-hanim} ان کا دیوان «افسوس» کسی خاتون کی مغربی اسلوب کی شاعری کی پہلی کتاب گنا جاتا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور کارنامہ",
     "markdown": "انہوں نے قاضی کوئے کے فرانسیسی اسکول اور نجی اساتذہ سے تعلیم پائی، آٹھ زبانیں سیکھیں اور بچپن سے پیانو بجایا۔ {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} چودہ برس میں شادی ہوئی، بعد میں طلاق ہوئی، اور ان کا صالون استنبول کے ادبی معاشرے کا مرکز رہا۔ {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} انسانی خدمات پر «نشانِ شفقت» ملا، اور 1 اپریل 1918ء کو استنبول میں وفات پائی۔ {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-tr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کام",
     "markdown": "ان کے مجموعوں میں «افسوس»، «نیران»، «عکسِ صدا» اور «صفحاتِ قلب» شامل ہیں، اور ان کی یادداشتیں «حیاتم کی حکایہ سی» وفات کے بعد 1959ء میں چھپیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- نگار خانم پر انگریزی، ترکی اور اردو ویکیپیڈیا کے مضامین، اور ویکی ڈیٹا آئٹم Q7034181۔ {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-en} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-tr} {cite:wikipedia-nigar-hanim-ur} {cite:wikidata-nigar-hanim}"
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