نمل namil A adj. Brisk, handy, nimble, ready. ¶ naml (Heb. ) An ant.

ناسنا nāsnā S̱. (नाशन r. णश Disappear, cease to be, perish) 1. v. n. To flee, to run away. 2. v. a. To destroy.

نبض nabẓ A s. f. The pulse. نبض ديکهنا nabẓ dekhnā, To feel the pulse.

نرتيکاري nrityakārī नृत्यकारिणी S̱. s. f. A female dancer.

نخوت naḵẖwat A (from نخو) s. f. Pride, haughtiness, pomp, magnificence.

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,

نرگاو nar-gāw P s. m. A bull.

ناس nās A s. plur. (for اناس plur. of انسان from انس Heb. ) Mankind, human beings.

نکامي ni-kām-ī S̱. adj. (dakh.) Without use, use- lessly.

نچوانا nuchwānā H (caus. of نوچنا) v. a. To cause to pinch or to pluck out, &c.