نوکري naukar-ī P s. f. Service, attendance. نوکري پيشه naukarī-pesha, One who lives on employ- ments.

نوم नवम navam S adj. Ninth.

نس निश् nis S (or nisi), 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.

نکوا nakūʼā S̱. (from ناک or نوک) s. m. 1. The nose; a disease of the nose. 2. The point of any thing.

ناٿ nāṭ S̱. s. (dakh.) Pillar, beam, architrave, log of wood: see لاٿهـ lāṭh.

نکتي niktī H s. f. A balance, small scales. ¶ nuktī (dakh.) A kind of sweetmeat. (Qanoon-e-islam).

نيسان naisān P s. m. Name of the 7th Syrian month, corresponding to the Persian فروردين and Hindī بيساکهہ baisākh. ابرنيسان abr-i-naisān, or ابرنيساني abr-i-naisānī, 1. The vernal cloud or rain. 2. The rain which falls while the moon is in the mansion swāti; and of which, if it drops into a shell, pearls are formed; but which turns to poison, if it happens to fall into the mouth of a serpent. See سوات swāti.

نکامه ni-kām-a S̱. adj. (dakh.) Useless, worthless, abject, base, good for nothing.

نماشام nimāshām H s. (dakh. i. q. سرشام) Evening, early in the evening (?). نماشام اترنا ni- māshām utarnā (met. i. q. سياه روهونا) To have the face black, to be disgraced (?).

نگاه nigāh P s. f. 1. A look, glance, sight, view, the aspect. 2. Observation, watching. 3. Cus- tody, care. نگاه رکهنا nigāh rakhnā, To take care, to lay by, to guard. نگاه کرنا nigāh kar- nā, To observe, look, regard, view, oversee.