نعت naﻌt A s. f. 1. Praise (especially, of Mu- ḥammad), eulogium. 2. An epithet. 3. An adjective noun.

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,

نراس nir-ās S̱. (निराशा) adj. Hopeless.

نقصان nuḳṣān A (from نقص) s. m. Loss, defect, deficiency, detriment, injury, damage, blemish, prejudice, mischief. A. H. نقصاني nuḳṣān-ī, adj. Detrimental, prejudi- cial (Harris).

نل नल nal S s. m. 1. A tube, spout, joint of bamboo or other hollow wood. 2. The bamboo which fowlers use to entangle game by applying birdlime to the top of it. نل چلانا nal-chalānā, Setting the bamboos in motion, denotes a ma- gical practice adopted for the discovery of theft. Two pieces of split bamboo, of equal lengths, are applied to one another side by side, and held by two men, one at each end. It is said that any persons taken at random may be em- ployed for this purpose. Then the magician pronounces certain incantations, the efficacy of which is pretended to be such, that the bam- boos spontaneously move towards the place where the thief or the stolen goods are, and drag the men along with them. نل در نل nal dar nal, One tube within another. 3. Name of a king, and hero of several poetical works fa- mous among the Hindūs.

نطق nut̤ḳ A s. m. Speech, language, discourse, articulation, reasoning faculty. A. P. نظارگي naz̤z̤āra-gī, s. f. Seeing, looking at, observation. s. m. Beholder, spectator.

نري narī H s. f. 1. A kind of leather, skin. 2. A weaverʼs shuttle.

نکچهکني nak-chhiknī छिक्कनी S̱. s. f. Name of a sternutatory plant.

نسق nasaḳ A or nasḳ (Heb. ) s. m. 1. Order, series, arrangement. 2. Style, manner of writing. نسق چي nasḳ-chī, An arranger (of an army).

نه nuh P adj. Nine. (Sans. नवन्).