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

نگاهداشت nigāh-dāsht P s. Enlistment, enlisting. نگاهداشت کرنا nigāh-dāsht karnā, To enlist.

نساٴي nisāʼī A adj. Of women.

نعلين naﻌlain A s. dual. (of نعل) A pair of shoes of a particular kind, i. e. with wooden soles.

نال नाल nāl S s. m. 1. A tube. 2. Barrel, bore or chase of a gun. 3. The navel string. 4. Stalk of the lotus.

نيماوت nīmāwat S̱. s. System of the followers of Nīmānand a faḳir.

نپوتا ni-pūt-ā S̱. adj. Childless, having no son.

نٿهڙاٴي niṭhuṛ-āʼī S̱. (निष्ठुरता) s. f. Cruelty, obduracy.

نسيان nisyān A (from نسي Heb. ) s. m. Obli- vion, forgetfulness. ¶ nasyān, adj. Very for- getful. A. P. نسياني nasyān-ī, s. f. Forgetfulness.

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,