نظمي naz̤m-ī A. s. m. 1. A composer, arranger, adjuster. 2. A poet.

نسا nisā A s. f. plur. 1. Women, ladies. 2. The female sex.

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).

ناقص nāḳiṣ A (part. act. of نقص) adj. Defective, imperfect, deficient, mutilated, inexpert. ناقص عقل nāḳiṣ-aﻌḳl, adj. Deficient in understanding, foolish, ignorant. ناقص کرنا nāḳiṣ karnā, To mutilate. ناقص هونا nāḳiṣ honā, To want, to fail.

نيارا nyārā निरालय S̱. 1. adj. Apart, aloof, separate, distinct, different, extraordinary, un- common. 2. s. m. The scoria left after refining gold, silver, or other metals, from which a minute portion of those metals is obtainable. نياري nyāre, adv. Apart.

نوح nūḥ Heb. n. prop. Noah. (Erroneously stated by Musalmān authors to be so called from his lamentations on account of the obsti- nacy of mankind who rejected his admonitions; but, really from Heb. To rest, to be com- forted or freed from pain. Gen. V. 29.).

نکل چلنا nikal chalnā S̱. 1. To escape. 2. (met.) To surpass another, to be advanced or pro- moted. 3. To speak much or display oneʼs talent. (Spoken of a person who from the mo- desty of a stranger had formerly been silent).

ناقد nāḳid A (part. act. of نقد Heb. ) s. m. A person whose business it is to examine coin and ascertain its goodness, an assayer. P. A. ناقدري nāḳadr-ī, adj. (dakh. for ناقدردان) Not knowing worth, disregarder of merit.

نراکار निराकार nir-ākār S adj. Without form or figure, incorporeal.

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