نقا naḳā A (from نقي Heb. and Chald. ) 1. s. f. Purity, cleanness. 2. adj. Pure, clean. 3. Good, virtuous, exquisite.

نکهاد निषाद nikh̤ād S s. m. 1. The first of the seven musical notes. 2. Name of a Hindū in- feriour cast. See چنڐال chanḍāl.

نہورا nihorā H s. m. 1. Favour, obligation, kindness. 2. Begging, requesting humbly, coaxing.

نفط nift̤ A or naft̤, s. Naphtha, bitumen.

نايره nāʼịra A (from نور Heb. ) s. m. Fire, heat, inflammation, flame, enmity, hatred.

نالي nālī नाडी S̱. s. f. 1. A drain. 2. A straw. 3. A tubulated tile. 4. A sinuous ulcer or fistula.

نزديک nazdīk P Near, hard by, with, close to, neighbouring, contiguous, almost, about.

نرخنامه nirḵẖ-nāma P s. m. An account of the price current.

نيلاب nīl-āb P s. Name of a river, the Aṭak (?).

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,