نخاس naḵẖḵẖās A s. m. A market for slaves and cattle.

نيگي جوگي neg-ī jogī H Tenants and dependants, to whom it is customary to give the neg, q. v. P. S. نيل nīl (नील) s. m. Indigo, blue. نيل يا نيل کا ماٿهہ بگڙنا nīl, or nīl kā māṭh bigaṛnā (lit.) A vat of indigo being spoiled, is used (met.) 1. To express the persecutions of fortune.

نيور newar H s. f. A sore in the feet of a horse.

ناپگار nāpigār P. (perhaps for نابکار) adj. Filthy, vile.

نکات nikāt A s. plur. of نکته nukta, q. v.

ناظره nāz̤ira A (part. act. fem. of نظر) s. m. 1. The eye, sight, vision. 2. Reading, studying. ناظره خواني nāz̤ira-ḵẖẉān-ī, Reading (in opposi- tion to repeating by heart).

نيوڙهنا neʼoṛhnā H v. a. To bow, to bend. See نہوڙنا nihūṛnā.

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.

نرمک narm-ak P adj. Delicate.

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