نربس nir-bas S̱. adj. Powerless, enfeebled.

نشاسته nishāsta P s. m. Starch.

نرنکال nirankāl S̱. (for निराकार i. e. निर् prep. and अंतर Form) adj. Without form (the deity), incorporeal.

نيسرنون nīsarnauṅ S̱. (in Braj) v. n. See نيسرنا nīsarnā.

نشيب nasheb P (prop. nisheb) s. m. Descent, declivity. adj. Sloping, low, hollow. نشيب فراز nasheb farāz, 1. Up and down; uneven, rugged. 2. The ups and downs of life. 3. Profit and loss, the advantages and disadvan- tages of any affair.

نرملي nir-mal-ī S (निर्मली or in Sans. कतक) s. f. Name of a seed with which water is cleared. (Strychnos potatorum).

نقرس niḳris A (improp. naḳris) s. The gout.

نسپتي nis-patī निशापति S̱. s. The moon.

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

نرا nirā S̱. (see نرالا nirālā) adj. Mere, pure, only unalloyed, single, simple.