ناچنا nāch-nā S̱. v. n. To dance.

نہک nahak H adj. Meagre, lean.

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

ناجي nājī A (from نجو) adj. Free, liberated, ex- cused, escaped, saved, elect. (Fem. ناجيه).

نصيري nuṣairī A s. m. A mahometan sectary who believes in the divinity of Aﻌlī.

نربسي nir-bis-ī S̱. (निर्विषी from निर् prep. and विष Poison: q. d. antidote) s. f. Ze- doary (a spicy plant somewhat like ginger in its leaves, but of a sweet scent. Amomum ze- doaria: Willd. Curcuma zedoaria: Roxb.).

نه nih P imper. 2. pers. sing. or part. in compos. (of نہادن) Place thou: placing, placer.

نتهرا nithrā H adj. Clear (water whose impurity has subsided).

نقده naḳda A. s. m. See نقد naḳd.

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,