نگ नग nag S s. m. 1. A mountain. 2. The stone of a ring or a stone on which a name, &c. is cut, a jewel, gem, precious stone.

نعوظ nuʼūﻌz̤ A (from نعظ) s. m. Erectio et intensio (penis).

نسق nasaḳ A or nasḳ (Heb. ) s. m. 1. Order, series, arrangement. 2. Style, manner of writing. نسق چي nasḳ-chī, An arranger (of an army).

نفسي nafs-ī A. adj. Of the soul, animal, carnal, sensual.

ن nūn The twenty-fifth letter of the Arabic and twenty-ninth of the Persian alphabet, corre- sponds to न in Sanskrit. It is one of the dental letters, and has the sound of the English n, with the following exceptions. 1. When it is quiescent in the middle or end of a word, and follows a madda or simple long vowel, it has a very slight nasal sound; as, in زبون Bad, زمان Time, زمين The earth, ماندن To remain: this is called نون غنب nūn-i-g̠ẖunna. If, how- ever, the word at the end of which it occurs be so placed in composition that the ن become moveable by iẓāfat, it ceases to be nasal and resumes its original sound as a dental letter. 2. When it precedes ب or پ it has the sound of m; as, in منبر mimbar, A pulpit; سنپت

نسرنا nisarnā निःसरण S̱. v. n. To issue, to go forth, to come out.

ناچنا nāch-nā S̱. v. n. To dance.

نهنا nhannā H adj. (dakh.) Small, little, junior: see ننها nannhā.

نرگستان nargistān P (perhaps for نرگسدان A re- ceptacle for narcissuses) s. m. A bed of Nar- cissuses.

نوري nūrī H s. f. Name of a bird of the parrot kind commonly called lūrī. (Psittacus).