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.

نار nār S̱. (for नारी) s. f. A woman. (for नाल) s. m. 1. Barrel of a gun. 2. The fibre of which rope is made. 3. The stalk of the lotus. 4. The neck.

نيجانا nai jānā S̱. (r. णम Bend) v. n. To stoop.

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

نشاٴيت nashā-īyat A. s. f. Quality of intoxicating.

نوميدانه naumed-āna P adv. Hopelessly.

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

نرگاو nar-gāw P s. m. A bull.

نيہہ neh स्नेह S̱. s. f. 1. Affection, kindness, love, friendship. 2. Oil.

نارايني नारायणी nārāyaṇī S s. f. The wife of Nārāyaṇa or Vish̤ṇu. adj. Of or relating to Nārāyaṇa.