نصفي niṣf-ī A. adj. Halved, half.

نمايش numāʼish P (from نمودن) s. f. Appearance, show, display, form, figure, face, vision, sight, spectacle, affection, affectation.

نحر naḥr A s. Cutting the throat, slaughtering. يوم النحر yaumu-n-naḥr (Day of sacrifice) the tenth of the month ẕī ḥijja.

نماي numāʼe P part. act. (from نمودن) in com- pos. Showing, exhibiting, appearing.

نردهار निर्धार nirdhār S s. m. Settling or fixing with accuracy, ascertainment.

نروگ nirog S̱. (नीरोगी) adj. In high health and spirits, healthy.

نشه nasha A. s. m. (or dakh. nashsha, s. f.) See نشا nashā.

نفرين nafrīn P s. f. 1. Detestation, abhorrence. 2. An imprecation, curse, opprobrious words.

نرسنگا nar-singā नलशृंग S̱. s. m. A horn (mu- sical), a wind instrument. S. نرسنگهـ नरसिंह or नृसिंह nar-singh or nr̤i- singh, s. m. The name of the fourth Avatār or incarnation of Vish̤ṇu, which happened in the Satya-yuga, upon the following occasion. Hiranya-kasipu, an impious prince, was en- raged at his son Prahlād for worshipping the Almighty, and tried every means of destroying him, by poison, by throwing him into fire, into the ocean, &c. yet Prahlād lived. "If your God is present every where," says Hiranya- kasipu, "let him come from an alabaster pil- lar;" on which Nar-singha appeared, with the lower part of a man and the upper of a lion,

ناگيسري nāgesar-ī S̱. adj. Of the colour of the nāgesar, yellow.