نمک namak P s. m. (dakh. nimak) 1. Salt. 2. (met.) Spirit, animation. 3. Bread, subsist- ence. نمک بند namak-band, adj. Stopped or bound up with salt (a wound). نمکچشي na- mak-chashī, The first feeding of a child about six months of age, which is attended with cer- tain ceremonies. (in dakh.) A ceremony of sending trays of food from the bridegroom to the bride, and the contrary, before marriage. نمک حرام namak-ḥarām, Disloyal, wicked, evil, disobedient, perfidious, traitor, ungrateful. نمک حرامي namak-ḥarām-ī, s. f. Perfidy, trea- son, treachery, disloyalty, ingratitude. نمک حلال namak-ḥalāl, Loyal, submissive, faithful, grateful. نمک حلالي namak-ḥalāl-ī, s. f. Fi- delity, loyalty, gratitude. نمک خوار namak- ḵẖẉār, A servant, dependant. نمکدان namak- dān, A saltcellar. نمکسار namaksār, Saline, a salt-pit. نمک کا کنکره حرام هونا namak kā kankra ḥarām honā (dakh. met. for فاقه رهنا) To continue in a fast or fasting, to keep a fast(?). کٿي پر نمک لگانا kaṭe par namak lagānā (lit. to put salt upon a wound) To add one grief or vexation to another.

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

نفر nafar A s. m. 1. A groom, a servant. 2. One person; as, تين نفر tīn nafar, Three per- sons. ¶ nafr, Fright, terrour.

نگالي nigāli S̱. (निगाल A horseʼs throat or neck) s. f. A small ḥuḳḳa snake, the wooden pipe of a ḥuḳḳa snake.

نسا निशा nisā S s. f. Night. نسچر nis-char, s. m. A prowler: see نساچر beneath. نسچراٴي nis- char-āʼī, s. f. Prowling. نسچراٴي کرنا nis-char-āʼī karnā, To prowl. نساچر निशाचर nisā-char, 1. A demon. 2. A robber, a thief. 3. A noc- turnal animal, an animal that watches and feeds by night. نساکر يا نساناتهـ निशाचर nisā-kar, or निशानाथ nisā-nāth, The moon.

نکپٿ निःकपट ni-kapaṭ S Without deceit or fraud, sincere, candid.

نيتي netī नेत्र S̱. s. f. A cord used to whirl round the churn-staff with.

نايچه nāʼecha P (dimin. of ناي) s. m. A small reed, a ḥuḳḳa snake.

نليا nal-iyā S̱. s. m. Name of a cast, whose em- ployment is to catch birds with quicklime by means of the نل nal, q. v.

نار nār P s. m. A pomegranate. (Punica gra- natum).