نيروا nerūʼā H s. m. Straw.

نروکهـ nar-ūkh S̱. adj. Male, masculine.

نگري nagar-ī S 1. s. f. (नगरी) A town, a village. 2. adj. (नागरीय) Of or belonging to a city.

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.

نسرين nasrīn P s. m. A wild rose. See نسترن.

نانک nānak H n. prop. Name of a faḳīr, founder of the sect of Sikhs. نانک پنتهي يا شاهي يا نانک متا nānak-panthī, or shāhī, or nānak- matā, s. m. A Sikh, or follower of Nānak.

نيونا newnā नमन S̱. v. n. To stoop, to bow.

نقي naḳī A (Heb. and Chald. ) adj. Pure, clean, excellent.

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

نسندهاٴي nisandhāʼī S̱. s. f. Solidity.